Breast Cancer - Moose and Doc

A breast cancer explanations website

 

May 7, 2019 By Dr. Halls

Terms, techniques, and concepts frequently associated with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer or just anyone, might occasionally need to read-up on these odd words.

Breast cancer-related histological techniques and analysis and techniques, and cellular biology in general.

  1. Synaptophysin in neuro endocrine breast tumors.
  2. Optical Coherence Tomography in breast cancer diagnosis.
  3. Cytoplasm
  4. Vesicular nuclei
  5. Eosinophilic cytoplasm in breast tumors.
  6. GCDFP-15 (Gross Cystic Disease Fluid Protein-15) Ab-1
  7. Arm paresthesia. A tingling symptom that happens.
  8. Stereotactic biopsies of the breast

Miscellaneous terms relating to breast cancer screening, staging, and treatments.

  1. Neuro-endocrine markers in breast cancer diagnosis
  2. Loss of heterozygocity and chromosome 16q in invasive breast cancers.
  3. HER2 status
  4. Hormone Receptor status in breast cancers
  5. lymphoscinitgraphy in breast cancer screening
  6. breast X-ray architectural distortion
  7. Lymphedema in the arm
  8. Breast-cancer immunohistochemistry

Your choice, might be for the old index, or to the new homepage.

About Steven Halls

Dr Halls has 25 years experience as a radiologist. He worked for 13 years at Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, a world-class cancer treatment facility. He has had high-volume experience with cancer, interventional procedures, clinical trials and his own phase 1 and 2 research in MRI and breast cancer staging.

 

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