Inflammatory breast cancer defined: proposed common diagnostic criteria to guide treatment and research.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Inflammatory breast cancer is a deadly and aggressive type of breast cancer. A key challenge relates to the need for a more detailed, formal, objective definition of IBC, the lack of which compromises clinical care, hampers the conduct of clinical trials, and hinders the search for IBC-specific biomarkers and treatments because of the heterogeneity of patients considered to have IBC.

Methods

Susan G. Komen, the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Milburn Foundation convened patient advocates, clinicians, and researchers to review the state of IBC and to propose initiatives to advance the field. After literature review of the defining clinical, pathologic, and imaging characteristics of IBC, the experts developed a novel quantitative scoring system

SUBMITTER: Jagsi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926970 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature