Lobular carcinoma Prognosis. 

The prognosis of lobular carcinoma is still under evaluation by WHO. There are different studies which quote different prognosis. Since the biological behaviour of the tumour has more ER +ve and the mutation makes it spread earlier. 

The below are the lines from WHO - 2019. (Latest for breast cancer)
"An important observation made in two series is that patients with ILC have an outcome better than or similar to that of patients with IDC-NOS in the first 10 year after diagnosis; however, the long-term outcome associated with lLC is worse than that associated with IDC-NOS" 

So it will be unfair to decide on the prognosis of the patient just based on Mx alone, TNM staging and the response to treatment will decide 

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