{"id":18,"date":"2013-09-15T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-09-15T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:28:38","slug":"pagets-disease-of-the-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/pagets-disease-of-the-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Paget&#8217;s Disease of the Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Paget&#8217;s Disease of the Breast<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Diagnosis can be confirmed with a punch biopsy the nipple areolar complex.<\/li>\n<li>Classically present with eczematous changes of the nipple which can progress to bleeding and ulceration.<\/li>\n<li>More than 90% of patients have underlying carcinoma (in situ or invasive)<\/li>\n<li>Cancer involving skin and nipple.<\/li>\n<li>Treatment: mastectomy traditionally. \u00a0<strong>But could be nipple areolar excision with central lumpectomy with radiation therapy (breast conservation therapy) &#8211; similar results.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>50% of patients with Paget&#8217;s disease will present with palpable mass.<\/li>\n<li>May be a role for MRI &#8211; deeper breast tissue disease may be missed radiographically and MRI can help detect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is breast conservation therapy?<\/h3>\n<p>A lesser amount of surgery than mastectomy. \u00a0Lumpectomy<\/p>\n<h3>Paget&#8217;s diease of the breast is also known as?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Paget&#8217;s disease of the nipple<\/li>\n<li>Mammary paget disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paget&#8217;s Disease of the Breast Diagnosis can be confirmed with a punch biopsy the nipple areolar complex. Classically present with eczematous changes of the nipple which can progress to bleeding and ulceration. More than 90% of patients have underlying carcinoma (in situ or invasive) Cancer involving skin and nipple. Treatment: mastectomy traditionally. \u00a0But could be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/pagets-disease-of-the-breast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paget&#8217;s Disease of the Breast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[38,40,36,37,39],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breast-conservation-therapy","category-pagets-disease","tag-breast-conservation-therapy-2","tag-central-lumpectomy","tag-pagets-disease-of-the-breast","tag-punch-biopsy","tag-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}