Borderline tumour?

[Daniellafriman]

Whats difference between borderline and low grade tumour?

My friend from hospital told that scale goes low grade- borderline - high grade.

But one of my old friens told that it goes borderline -low grade - high grade.

I just thinking how it really goes. (Night thinking ) Didn't found anything from the google.

Xx

[Sunfleury-UK]

There is a good fact sheet on Borderline OC on the Ovacome website. Sx

[TinaB1]

Hi there..

Borderline is thought to develop into low grade sometimes in a stepwise fashion. Low grade and high grade are now seen as being two different entities with their own pathways.

Increasingly, new treatments are being sought so that they're targeted and more effective. This can only happen if cancers and their sub-groups are correctly identified.

There are cases of high and low grade coexisting but these cases aren't usual. There are also cases of indolent high grade and aggressive low grade with high grade features.

Hope this helps. Xx

[Choski]

As I understand it - Borderline means it isn't cancer however there are some abnormal cells which are classed as low malignant potential.

So a tumour would be classed as BENIGN, BORDERLINE OR CANCEROUS. I also understand that Borderline are non invasive.

Grade is about the CELL and how abnormal they look

The following about GRADE is taken from the cancer research t site:

cancerresearchuk.org/about-...

"Tumour grade describes a tumour in terms of how abnormal the tumour cells are compared to normal cells. It also describes how abnormal the tissues look under a microscope.

The grade gives your doctor some idea of how the cancer might behave. A low grade cancer is likely to grow more slowly and be less likely to spread than a high grade one. Doctors can't be certain exactly how the cells will behave. But the grade is a useful indicator.

Tumour grade is sometimes taken into account as part of cancer staging systems. The stage of a cancer describes how big the cancer is and whether it has spread or not.

Common grading systems

Some types of cancer have their own grading systems but generally there are 3 grades. They are described as

Grade 1 – The cancer cells look very similar to normal cells and are growing slowly

Grade 2 – The cells look unlike normal cells and are growing more quickly than normal

Grade 3 – The cancer cells look very abnormal and are growing quickly"

So take me for instance, I had a cancerous mass with a high grade cancer cell (clear cell which is grade 3, cell looks abnormal and fast growing)

Hope that helps and as already written there is a good fact sheet about Borderline on this site.

Take care

Clare

[Cropcrop]

There's nothing more I can add to what's already been written here other than to say good luck with your outcome and try to ignore those night time thoughts, they always make things seem so very much worse than they actually are and try to avoid the internet, you can read all the info there into being something that's not necessarily the case. Jane ❤️Xx

[Daniellafriman]

Thank you for information. ❤ Now I am more clever ... 😉