New secretory cancer findings from S.M. Brandt and co-authors described
2009 JUL 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- "Invasive carcinoma in the axilla may arise from skin appendage glands or ectopic breast tissue or it may be a metastasis. Carcinomas of the skin adnexal glands and breast can be difficult to distinguish from each other as they often display the same patterns of growth," scientists in the United States report. "Tubular, cribriform, papillary, apocrine, mucinous. and adenoid cystic are histologic types of carcinoma seen in the breast and skin appendage glands. To our knowledge, secretory carcinoma, the most common form of mammary carcinoma in children, has not yet been described as a morphologic pattern of skin adnexal carcinoma, although we cannot exclude the possibility that such a case was reported with a different diagnosis," wrote S.M. Brandt and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "We report a case of a young girl with secretory carcinoma that seems to have arisen from skin appendage glands in the skin of the axilla in the absence of demonstrable ectopic breast tissue.." Brandt and colleagues published their study in American Journal of Surgical Pathology (Secretory Carcinoma in the Axilla Probable Origin From Axillary Skin Appendage Glands in a Young Girl. American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2009;33(6):950-953). For more information, contact S.M. Brandt, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medical, Weill Cornell Med College, 525 E 68th St., Starr 1031, New York City, NY 10065, USA. Publisher contact information for the American Journal of Surgical Pathology is: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106-3621, USA. Keywords: United States, Starr, Breast Cancer, Breast Carcinoma, Oncology, Pathology, Secretory Cancer, Secretory Carcinoma, Women's Health. This article was prepared by Cancer Weekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Cancer Weekly via NewsRx.com.
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