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invasive carcinoma

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invasive carcinoma,
a malignant neoplasm composed of epithelial cells that infiltrate and destroy surrounding tissues and may metastasize.


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Working in animal models, he identified a link between blood-borne or systemic metastasis and a three-part association between invasive carcinoma cells, perivascular white blood cells (macrophages) and the endothelial cells that line vessel walls.
Several studies have assessed the risk of subsequent invasive carcinoma in patients in whom the diagnosis of DCIS was missed, or in those who were left untreated after diagnosis.
DISCUSSION Metaplastic ductal carcinoma of the breast is a well-recognized but rare manifestation of poorly differentiated invasive carcinoma, which contains both epithelial (ductal) and mesenchymal elements, and represents <1% of all breast carcinomas.
 
 
 
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