invasive breast carcinoma
MONDO:0006256Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names invasive breast carcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A carcinoma that infiltrates the breast parenchyma. The vast majority are adenocarcinomas arising from the terminal ductal lobular unit (TDLU). Often, the invasive adenocarcinoma co-exists with ductal or lobular carcinoma in situ. It is the most common carcinoma affecting women.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0006256), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (11)
- adenoid cystic breast carcinoma
- breast large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma
- inflammatory breast carcinoma
- invasive ductal breast carcinoma
- invasive lobular breast carcinoma
- malignant breast myoepithelioma
- metaplastic breast carcinoma
- mucoepidermoid breast carcinoma
- oncocytic breast carcinoma
- sebaceous breast carcinoma
- signet ring cell breast carcinoma
Other names
8 names
Resolves to: invasive breast carcinoma
- Also called
- infiltrating breast cancerinfiltrating breast carcinomainfiltrating carcinoma of breastinfiltrating carcinoma of the breastinvasive breast cancerinvasive carcinoma of breastinvasive carcinoma of the breastinvasive mammary carcinoma