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My friend has invasive carcinoma medullary carcinoma. whats that mean?

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Dr. Gene Wong answered

Need more info: Medullary carcinoma is not organ specific and is a discription of how cancer looks like under microscope. Medullary cancer can be described in breast cancer, thyroid cancer for example. Thus the prognosis and treatment really depends on the origin of the cancer.

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Answered 6/11/2015

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