Invasive ductal carcinoma

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Classification according to ICD-10
C50 Breast cancer
C50.0 Nipple and areola
C50.1 Central glandular body of the mammary gland
C50.2 Upper inner quadrant of the mammary gland
C50.3 Lower inner quadrant of the mammary gland
C50.4 Upper outer quadrant of the mammary gland
C50.5 Lower outer quadrant of the mammary gland
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The term invasive ductal carcinoma ( engl. Invasive ductal carcinoma or IDC ) is used for all malignant tumors used, resulting in the ducts (ductal) of the mammary gland have been formed and broken into surrounding tissue are (invasive) or are not clearly associated with a different type of tumor can be ("not otherwise specified").

At around 70 percent, IDC is the most common form of breast cancer .

Individual evidence

  1. W. Remmele et al .: Pathologie: Zytopathologie, Volume 8. Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-04561-5 , p. 189, (online)