I agree @arpie - well worth watching this video interview- I didn’t fully appreciate how ILC would have been harder (if not impossible) to detect through routine mammogram and that it doesn’t always present with a lump.
I agree - a fuller understanding about ILC characteristics and pathology give a fuller picture to the person with BC when they are weighing up surgical options like lumpectomy vs mastectomy and a better appreciation of the benefits of radiotherapy and post surgery treatments after surgery.
I am thankful that at the start my breast surgeon requested a battalion of diagnostics - ultrasound, biopsies, MRI and PET scans. It was a bit taxing but I assume these enabled ILC to be detected and it was taken into account in my treatment and surgery regime.
I support the journalists call for better research into ILC and awareness raising about the shortcomings in current conventional scans for detection of ILC.
