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Invasive ductal carcinoma with lymph vascular invasion

Breast Cancer | Last Active: 6 hours ago | Replies (14)
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@windyshores

@autieoakley I was told by my doctors. that LVI was confined to the breast and that focal lympovascular invasion is not really a precursor to node involvement. They did not mention angiogenesis but instead said that LVI indicates cells that "want to travel." They did not connect LVI to node involvement at all. My nodes were all negative.

Since your interpretation differs from what I have told, I want to research. Can you share a source?

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | 1 day ago

Here is a few;
American cancer society
https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.26711
Here is a couple different ones from NIH
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25855161/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7279808/
And here is an easy to understand graphic for patients
https://www.mypathologyreport.ca/pathology-dictionary/definition-lymphovascular-invasion/
I hope this can encourage a wider view of pathology and the way that it guides treatments.

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