| Health / Medical Topics |
Invasive cancer
Pronunciation
Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues. Also called infiltrating cancer. (NCI Dictionary)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
A carcinoma that infiltrates the breast parenchyma. The vast majority are adenocarcinomas arising from the terminal ductal lobular unit (TDLU). …
Cancer that has spread from where it began in the breast to surrounding normal tissue. The most common type of invasive breast…
An invasive breast adenocarcinoma with cytological and immunophenotypic characteristics of apocrine differentiation in more than 90 percent of the malignant cells. …
Invasive carcinoma is the penetration of malignant epithelial cells (that demonstrates unequivocal glandular proliferation) through the basement membrane into the surrounding stroma…
Marked by a tendency to spread, especially into healthy surrounding tissue.
A morphologic finding indicating the presence of a malignant cellular infiltrate invading the muscularis mucosa.
