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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 25.
Published in final edited form as: Mod Pathol. 2021 Apr 6;34(8):1495–1506. doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00796-9

Table 5.

Patients with disease progression

Age
(yr)
Clinical presentation/Initial diagnosis Treatment Disease progression/recurrence
Treatment
Follow-up
(since index
CNB)
1 73 No personal or family hx of BC
Screening Mx: Ca++ (0.5 cm)
CNB: apo FLCIS with necrosis (ER+)
EXC: PLCIS, margins negative
Excision
No XRT
No HT
24 mo from initial diagnosis
MRI: linear NME (3.3 cm)
Pathology: FLCIS with microinvasion; margins negative; 0/2 SLNs
Excision with SLN
87 mo
NED
2 75 History of contralateral DCIS and ipsilateral PLCIS (s/p excision with negative margins)
Family history of BC
Screening Mx: Ca++ (0.3 cm)
CNB: apo PLCIS with necrosis (ER+/HER2−)
EXC: apo PLCIS with microinvasion; margins negative
Excision
No XRT
No HT
15 mo from initial diagnosis
Mx: Ca++
Pathology: PLCIS with microinvasion; margin positive for microinvasion
Excision, no SLN; patient declined mastectomy/re-excision

29 mo after index CNB
mass at the site of prior excision
Pathology: Invasive carcinoma with mixed features (2.6 cm), DCIS, PLCIS; margins negative; 0/5 SLN
Excision with SLN; XRT; CMF
73 mo
DOD
3 57 History of ipsilateral tubular carcinoma s/p excision with negative SLN, XRT, and tamoxifen switched to anastrozole, then raloxifene
Screening Mx: Ca++ (2.4 cm)
CNB: apo FLCIS with necrosis (ER+/HER2−)
EXC: apo FLCIS; margins negative
Excision
No XRT
Raloxifene (for prior tubular carcinoma)
59 mo after index CNB
Palpable lesion
US: irregular mass (1.2 cm)
Pathology: P-ILC (0.15 and 0.1 cm), PLCIS, FLCIS; margins negative
Mastectomy, continue raloxifene
65 mo
NED

BC: breast cancer; Mx: mammogram; Ca++: calcifications; CNB: core needle biopsy; apo: apocrine; FLCIS: florid lobular carcinoma in situ; EXC: excision; PLCIS: pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ; XRT: radiation therapy; HT: hormonal therapy; NME: non-mass enhancement; SLN: sentinel lymph node; NED: no evidence of disease; DOD: died of disease; CMF: cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil; P-ILC: pleomorphic invasive lobular carcinoma