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'''Lymph nodes with isolated tumour cells''', also '''isolated tumour cells''' and '''isolated cancer cells''', is the presence of rare cancer cells in a lymph node. | '''Lymph nodes with isolated tumour cells''', also '''isolated tumour cells''' (abbreviated '''ITCs''') and '''isolated cancer cells''', is the presence of rare cancer cells in a lymph node. | ||
This article is focused on ''isolated tumour cells'' in [[breast pathology]]. | |||
==General== | ==General== | ||
===Definition=== | ===Definition=== | ||
*An isolated cluster of tumour cells within a lymph node in one tissue section measuring <= 0.2 mm ''or'' <200 tumour cells.<ref name=pmid19317993> {{Cite journal | last1 = Reed | first1 = J. | last2 = Rosman | first2 = M. | last3 = Verbanac | first3 = KM. | last4 = Mannie | first4 = A. | last5 = Cheng | first5 = Z. | last6 = Tafra | first6 = L. | title = Prognostic implications of isolated tumor cells and micrometastases in sentinel nodes of patients with invasive breast cancer: 10-year analysis of patients enrolled in the prospective East Carolina University/Anne Arundel Medical Center Sentinel Node Multicenter Study. | journal = J Am Coll Surg | volume = 208 | issue = 3 | pages = 333-40 | month = Mar | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.10.036 | PMID = 19317993 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Naidoo | first1 = K. | last2 = Pinder | first2 = SE. | title = Micro- and macro-metastasis in the axillary lymph node: A review. | journal = Surgeon | volume = | issue = | pages = | month = Aug | year = 2016 | doi = 10.1016/j.surge.2016.07.002 | PMID = 27498412 }}</ref> | *An isolated cluster of tumour cells within a lymph node in one tissue section measuring <= 0.2 mm ''or'' <=200 tumour cells.<ref name=pmid19317993> {{Cite journal | last1 = Reed | first1 = J. | last2 = Rosman | first2 = M. | last3 = Verbanac | first3 = KM. | last4 = Mannie | first4 = A. | last5 = Cheng | first5 = Z. | last6 = Tafra | first6 = L. | title = Prognostic implications of isolated tumor cells and micrometastases in sentinel nodes of patients with invasive breast cancer: 10-year analysis of patients enrolled in the prospective East Carolina University/Anne Arundel Medical Center Sentinel Node Multicenter Study. | journal = J Am Coll Surg | volume = 208 | issue = 3 | pages = 333-40 | month = Mar | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.10.036 | PMID = 19317993 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Naidoo | first1 = K. | last2 = Pinder | first2 = SE. | title = Micro- and macro-metastasis in the axillary lymph node: A review. | journal = Surgeon | volume = | issue = | pages = | month = Aug | year = 2016 | doi = 10.1016/j.surge.2016.07.002 | PMID = 27498412 }}</ref> | ||
===Significance=== | ===Significance=== | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Invasive breast cancer]]. | *[[Invasive breast cancer]]. | ||
*[[Breast cancer staging]]. | |||
*[[Lymph node metastasis]]. | *[[Lymph node metastasis]]. | ||
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[[Category:Lymph | [[Category:Lymph node pathology]] | ||