MARY LLOYD, ABC JOURNALIST: I’m ABC journalist Mary Lloyd and in 2019 I found a lump in my breast which, like most women, I knew to watch for.
I look at that and I can't see anything but as a trained pathologist can you look at that and see something cancerous. That's it in there. There are other forms of breast cancer, which are generally classified as rare, but the one that I had was lobular breast cancer, which makes up 10 to 15 per cent of cases.ANDREW FIELD: And it goes out very, very diffusely. These are cancer cells.
MARY LLOYD: Her GP sent her for another scan, this time an MRI. The patch of tissue Becky had been worried about was in fact lobular breast cancer. On a mammogram the black areas are fat. The rest shows up as white. Tumours are also white, so radiologists look for lump shapes or other distortions like this.PROFESSOR RICKARD: Lobulars are definitely more difficult to detect. They don't grow as a mass. They tend to grow into the adjacent tissues just as little lines of tumour cells.
MARY RICKARD: People need to be aware that their breast looks different, feels different, not just that they have a lump.
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