title: Processing the small invasive carcinoma detected in the mammographically directed breast biopsy.
abstract: During the next few years pathologists can expect to be called upon with increasing frequency to extract data on a number of cell cycle, biochemical, and genetic features of breast cancers as a routine part of the specimen examination. Obtaining this information without compromising the histologic diagnosis or losing morphologic-based prognostic information is challenging, particularly with small invasive breast cancers, but is a service pathologists should be able to provide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomic Pathology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco 94119, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bennington
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011379:Prognosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents