Abstract:Introduction
Thirty patient advocates attended the First International Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer Symposium in 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center. The conference underscored that invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) and other lobular pathologies are understudied. Specifically:
ILC is the sixth most prevalent cancer of women and the second most frequently diagnosed histological subtype of breast cancer impacting up to 34,000 patients a year in the US.
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