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carcinoma
(redirected from lobular carcinoma)

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carcinoma: see neoplasm neoplasm or tumor, tissue composed of cells that grow in an abnormal way. Normal tissue is growth-limited, i.e., cell reproduction is equal to cell death.
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We know that male breast cancer differs from female breast cancer with respect to age at diagnosis (men are older at the time of diagnosis than women), (2) and frequency of histologic subtypes (the majority of men have invasive ductal carcinoma, but lobular carcinoma is rare in men when compared with women, probably due to lack of terminal lobules in the male breast).
Moreover, the odds of lobular carcinoma were significantly elevated among women currently receiving oral estrogen (2.
 
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