Case study 1

A 40-year-old woman presented to the symptomatic breast clinic with a self-detected breast lump

Her medical history included obesity and depression. She was not on regular medications and had no allergies. She was working in a high level and stressful job, drank 10 units of alcohol a week...

Although breast cancer is mostly seen in older women, 23% of patients are under 50 at diagnosis, with 6% under 40, and issues surrounding fertility and family planning are major issues in survivorship care for many of these women. Conversations surrounding this typically begin shortly after diagnosis and before...

Case study 1

A 62-year-old woman was recalled by the BreastCheck screening programme due to a suspicious 0.9cm abnormality in her right breast on a screening mammogram

This abnormality was not palpable on clinical examination. She had a background history of hypertension only. She had no family history...

Case study 1

A 43-year-old woman presented with an inverted right nipple

Work-up revealed a 6.6cm complex spiculated right breast mass with associated microcalcifications. Biopsy revealed a grade 2 invasive ductal carcinoma. Immunohistochemistry was positive for oestrogen receptor and progesterone...

Case study 1

A 53-year-old perimenopausal woman presented with a lump and went through triple assessment breast clinic

This woman had WLE+SNB in June 2014. Post op pathology of 1.8cm T1N0 grade II ductal left breast carcinoma. ER+, PR+, HER2- (luminal A).  Oncotype DX recurrence score of 12. She had...