Lobular Breast Cancer and its Challenges - with Dr Tasha
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- In today's episode, I am going to talk about Lobular Breast Cancer that presents its own set of challenges when it comes to diagnosis as well as understanding it.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 What is lobular breast cancer?
00:54 How does lobular breast cancer presents?
01:40 What are the specific challenges with lobular breast cancer?
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WORRIED ABOUT A BREAST LUMP OR SYMPTOM?
FRUSTRATED AND CONFUSED BY CONFLICTING INFORMATION?
TRYING TO NAVIGATE LIFE AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND DON’T KNOW WHERE TO TURN?
Breast health has become an important topic for both women and men. But with a huge amount of conflicting and confusing information out there, it can be hard to find the advice, support and care that you need.
My Breast My Health was created to make understanding breast health easy. Whether you’re looking to learn how to keep your breasts healthy, concerned about new symptoms or learning to live post-diagnosis, you’re in the right place.
Hi, I'm Dr Tasha
I’m a Doctor, Breast Cancer Surgeon and Medical Educator. After 20 years helping people to understand and overcome breast health problems, I’ve seen first hand the fear, frustration and stress that my patients go through.
As a breast specialist with over a decade’s worth of experience, I understand finding the right information, processing a diagnosis, understanding treatment and getting accurate, practical advice as you ride the rollercoaster of emotions can be really tough.
But I’m here to help.
The internet can be a wonderful source of information but when it comes to breast health there’s a lot of inaccurate information out there. Listening to the wrong advice could cause you unnecessary worry or even put your health at risk.
So I wanted to create an accessible hub where you could find useful, accurate and reliable information from a trusted source - a Breast Health Doctor - all in one place.
That’s exactly what you’ll find here on my UA-cam Channel.
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Dr. Tasha, Thank you so much for this easy to understand video. 68 yo just diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma. Let the fight begin.
Doctor Tasha, thank you so much for covering lobular. Its such a misunderstood disease, that behaves very differently from ductal. With a high rate of recurrence in 15-30 years post diagnosis.
I'm young to have it, and feel a bit like its a ticking clock now, my personal situation means my 10-15 year survival stats are 50% (source: Swedish whole population data: and the mortality only includes deaths caused by lobular BC, rather than all cause deaths).
For a BC that accounts for 12-15% of cases, it only gets 1% of BC funding research. I can't find anywhere in the UK that does FES PET scans (flouroestradiol, rather than FDG PET), yet these are standard in usa, Canada, Australia, europe, etc.... and the gold standard for finding even micro-metastases.
I would like to share an MRI will NOT accurately show where in the breast a lobular ca linkage is present.. my MRI showed 1 location of lobular cells. When surgery was done there were actually 3 areas of lobular areas within the breast, with 1 area measuring 5.5 cm.. staging went from 2 to 3 and mastectomy being needed.
Unfortunately, even the best scans we have at the moment will not be able to pick up small areas of cancer. These areas can only be visualised under a microscope once the specimen is removed. Perhaps in the future we will have a way to accurately detect extent of disease to the mm.
I finally have my diagnosis: DCIS. I need a mastectomy.
So sorry to hear this. Wish you all the best for your upcoming surgery.
@@drtashag 4 week wait ish. It's high grade & extensive.
I was diagnosed with this . 3 years I attended the clinic and they missed it, yet my dog knew.
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Dogs are very intuitive 🙏🏽
@@drtashag thanks for covering this, not many focus on lobular cancer.