The pathologist – a key person in a multidisciplinary team of breast cancer

Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has progressed rapidly in recent 20 years. The diagnosis was first based on clinical appearance that changes after the introduction of mammography in the diagnosis. Development of radiological techniques has led to the detection of a small and non-palpable lesions, and surgeons are increasingly applied conserving procedures for breast cancer. Therefore, today is a very important multidisciplinary team in the treatment of patients with breast cancer. A pathologist is a key member of the multidisciplinary team because must determine the number of prognostic and predictive factors for patients with breast cancer which requires some standardized protocols and processing of tissue samples