Liang Cheng, Professor and Vice Chair at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, shared on LinkedIn:
“The morphologic spectrum of intraductal and intra-acinar neoplasms of the prostate includes high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), atypical intraductal proliferation (AIP), and intraductal carcinoma of the prostate (IDC-P).
AIP is defined as an intraglandular proliferation with greater architectural complexity and/or cytologic atypia than HGPIN but insufficient for a diagnosis of IDC-P. IDC-P, traditionally regarded as retrograde intraductal spread of prostatic adenocarcinoma (PAC), is associated with adverse clinicopathologic features, as is AIP, and both demonstrate overlapping molecular profiles.
Rare cases of IDC-P not associated with invasive PAC are thought to represent a true precursor lesion.
What’s new on the horizon? Take a look at this salient letter by Prof. Rodolfo Montironi, just published today in European Urology.”
Title: Identification of Intraductal-to-Invasive Spatial Transitions in Prostate Cancer: Proposal for a New Unifying Model on Intraductal Carcinogenesis
Authors: Rodolfo Montironi, Alessia Cimadamore, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Liang Cheng
Read The Full Article at European Oncology.
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