Thus, detection of these abnormalities in the breast tissue may be clinically useful. In addition, traditionally, after lumpectomies or mastectomies, pathologists make certain that the breast cancers are removed in their entirety and with a rim of normal tissue. If additional studies confirm the clinical importance of the findings reported by Deng et al , then, it may become necessary to remove the normal appearing tissues that exhibit the genetic abnormality. The dense area within the mammogram is a breast carcinoma. The second figure shows the gross appearance of the breast carcinoma.
Breast carcinoma appears as a white, stellate tumor which is hard to palpation.
The third micrograph shows the light microscopic appearance of the normal appearing breast tissue. The figure at the bottom shows the light microscopic appearance of the duct cell carcinoma of the breast.