depth of biopsy

Posted by: Alyssa in mens issues on Jul 22, 2006 Print PDF

HI

I was looking over my pathology and I noticed in the macroscopic descprition the last sentence reads No stromal invasion is seen and no muslaris propria is seen on the slide.  Can the URO and Pathologist accurately make the statement that the tumor is not invasive if no muscle is seen?  Would the tumor had to have grown into the underlying stroma and then the mucle?  So would it be definitive to say that if the tumor had not grown into the stroma that it could not have grown into the muscle?

Any reply is appreciated
Alyssa
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Rosemary
July 22, 2006

Alyssa,

I had the same question about how my biopsy reads...

"No muscularis propria is present in this specimen."

But I asked the doctor point blank if he had gotten enough muscle.  I was sent to him partly because my local doctor could not seem to get enough muscle tissue to biopsy.

Anyway, the cancer specialist said that he had gotten plenty of muscle tissue to read.

I hope someone can enlighten us on this.
Christopher
July 25, 2006

Alyssa,

Your tumor was graded a Ta, which means there was no invasion into the lamina propria, if there was then you would have a T1.  If you had a T1 it may be important to have a sample of the muscle as well to make sure it wasn't a T2, but yours was a Ta, not a T1.

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