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Report of biopsy reads (in part):invasive ductal carcinoma with 'focal squamous differentiation' does this mean in fact there are squamous cells pres?
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Not Squamous cancer: It means that some of the cells have gone through changes that make them look like squamous cells. It isn't handled any differently than if it didn't say that.
Answered 7/7/2015
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