My mother, aged 49 was diagnosed with breast cancer today.
I am typing out the doctors description of the case...please provide me with professional opinion and the seriousness of the condition...
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FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION -CYT
Nature of specimen: FNAC Breast
Apiration cytology: AC 29-07
GORSS OBSERVATION: Aspirated blood tinged material from a hard mass in left breast at 12 o clock position subareolar ms 3x3 cm in size.
MICROSCOPIC Observation: Smears show a high cell yeild. There are irregular loose aggregates of atypical epithelial cells and also scattered singly. The cells are highly pleomorphic with nuclear enlargment irregular nuclear contour, hyperchorimasia and coarse clumped chromatin with nucleoli. The nuclear cyptoplasmic ratio is altered. The cytoplasm is variable. The background shows neutrophililc infiltration.
Impression: Aspirates from mass in left reast showing features consistent with carcinoma.
Please give an opinion on what i should do next...any help or reply will be greatly appreciated...
thankyou....