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Classification Based on

Malignant Tumors

Type Subtype

Adenocarcinoma[1]

Ductal

  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
  • comedo type: ~60% of DCIS
  • non comedo type: ~40% of DCIS
  • papillary
  • micropapillary
  • cribriform
  • solid
  • intracystic papillary carcinoma in situ
  • invasive ductal carcinoma
  • invasive ductal carcinoma not otherwise specified (NOS): ~65%
  • tubular carcinoma of breast: ~7-8%
  • tubulolobular carcinoma of breast
  • medullary carcinoma of breast (MCB): ~2%
  • mucinous (colloid) carcinoma: ~2%
  • malignant papillary lesions of the breast
  • papillary carcinoma of breast: 1-2% 1

Lobular

  • lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)
  • invasive lobular carcinoma: ~10%

Other malignant breast tumors

  • inflammatory carcinoma of breast: 1-4%
  • Paget disease of the nipple
  • triple negative and basal-like breast cancers
  • metaplastic carcinoma of the breast
  • adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast: <0.4%
  • apocrine carcinoma of the breast

Sarcoma

  • angiosarcoma of the breast
  • fibrosarcoma of breast
  • extra-skeletal osteosarcoma of breast
  • malignant phyllodes tumor
  • angiosarcoma
  • rhabdomyosarcoma

Lymphoma

  • Non-hodgkin lymphoma

Metastases to the breast

The most common extra-mammary cancers that metastasise to breast are:

  1. Breast Neoplasm. Radiopedia. (2015) http://radiopaedia.org/articles/breast-neoplasms Accessed on January 16, 2016