 Carcinoma, Medullary
"Carcinoma, Medullary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A carcinoma composed mainly of epithelial elements with little or no stroma. Medullary carcinomas of the breast constitute 5%-7% of all mammary carcinomas; medullary carcinomas of the thyroid comprise 3%-10% of all thyroid malignancies. (From Dorland, 27th ed; DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1141; Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D018276
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.465.625.650.240.315 C04.557.470.200.025.370.315 C04.557.470.615.315 C04.557.580.625.650.240.315
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| Concept/Terms |
Carcinoma, Medullary- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Carcinomas, Medullary
- Medullary Carcinoma
- Medullary Carcinomas
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
- Diseases [C]
- Neoplasms [C04]
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type [C04.557]
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal [C04.557.465]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.465.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.465.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.465.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.465.625.650.240.315]
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial [C04.557.470]
- Carcinoma [C04.557.470.200]
- Adenocarcinoma [C04.557.470.200.025]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.470.200.025.370]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.200.025.370.315]
- Neoplasms, Ductal, Lobular, and Medullary [C04.557.470.615]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.470.615.315]
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue [C04.557.580]
- Neuroectodermal Tumors [C04.557.580.625]
- Neuroendocrine Tumors [C04.557.580.625.650]
- Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine [C04.557.580.625.650.240]
- Carcinoma, Medullary [C04.557.580.625.650.240.315]
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Carcinoma, Medullary".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Carcinoma, Medullary" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Carcinoma, Medullary" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carcinoma, Medullary" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Mateo AM, Pezzi TA, Sundermeyer M, Kelley CA, Klimberg VS, Pezzi CM. Chemotherapy Significantly Improves Survival for Patients with T1c-T2N0M0 Medullary Breast Cancer: 3739 Cases From the National Cancer Data Base. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Apr; 24(4):1050-1056.
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Mateo AM, Pezzi TA, Sundermeyer M, Kelley CA, Klimberg VS, Pezzi CM. Atypical medullary carcinoma of the breast has similar prognostic factors and survival to typical medullary breast carcinoma: 3,976 cases from the National Cancer Data Base. J Surg Oncol. 2016 Oct; 114(5):533-536.
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