Do you understand your Breast Pathology?
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Pathologists are our daily unsung heroes who work secretly behind the scenes – they are also called- “Doctors doctor”.
Your treatment regimen is based on your pathology results. I am so honored to interview, an incredible pathologist in Columbus, OH, Dr. Syed Mohsin. He answers the following questions.
- What does a breast pathologist do?
- Why does it take a couple of days to get the pathology results?
- How can you tell a difference between cancer and benign under microscope?
- What is cancer anyway?
- Pl explain the difference between invasive cancer vs. non-invasive cancer.
- What is the difference between grade and stage?
- What does receptor status mean? ER, PR, Her- 2 neu?
- When a surgeon removes lymph nodes, what does it mean when it says ITCs, micrometastasis and macrometastasis?
- What is the difference between atypia (like ADH) vs. DCIS, similarly ALH vs. LCIS?
- My surgeon keeps talking about margins, what does that mean and how important is that?
- What is the difference between lobular and ductal breast cancer under a microscope?
- What is Ki- 67?
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