[A clinicopathological study of 160 cases of mucinous carcinoma of the breast].
A clinicopathological study was performed on characteristics of mammary mucinous carcinoma and its 3 pathological subgroups: "gelatinous type"--with predominant mucin component, "epithelial type"--with predominant epithelial component, and "combined type"--with a small part of infiltrating ductal carcinoma and mucinous pattern. Among 4,653 primary breast cancers mastectomized at the C.I.H. between 1946 and 1981, 160 or 3.4% was mucinous carcinoma. They were divided into 106 gelatinous type, 20 epithelial type and 34 combined type. 10-year survival rate of mucinous carcinoma (75.3%) was better than whole breast cancer (65.6%). And it was 90.7%, 82.4% and 67.6% in gelatinous, epithelial and combined type, respectively.
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis