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dysplasia with cis
Hello everyone, I have a doubt!
The histology of my dad says “dysplasia area with contiguous cis focuses”.
I want to know if the cis is considered focal or diffuse!
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I am not sure I would dignify it by calling it a “definition.” I would think rather that the pathologist used this term as a “description.”
Sara Anne
Diagnosis 2-08 Small papillary TCC; CIS
BCG; BCG maintenance
Vice-President, American Bladder Cancer Society
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Hello , and thank you!
You ‘ve been very clear !
So the definition is ” focal cis ” ?
Well, I am NOT a pathologist, but here is how I would interpret that…There are areas that are not normal with strange looking cells (the “dysplasia”) AND areas within that that show definite features of CIS. When I was diagnosed, the first biopsy showed “areas of dysplasia.” So the uro went back in and took more samples and the result was CIS.
CIS is kind of like a rash on the bladder lining….a thin layer of malignant cells rather than a lumpy tumor. So I suspect that there are areas where the cells show definite properties that CIS cells do and around that areas where there are sort of non-specific abnormalities, but not quite CIS.
Does that muddy it all up or make it clearer?
Sara Anne
Diagnosis 2-08 Small papillary TCC; CIS
BCG; BCG maintenance
Vice-President, American Bladder Cancer Society
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