What is the "Bloom-Richardson score"?

What is the "Bloom-Richardson score"?

The Bloom-Richardson score is a way that the pathologist grades the tumor and what that means is after a woman has surgery and her cancer is removed or if it is just biopsied, the cancer is stained and looked at underneath the microscope. The pathologist then describes the cells based on how normal they look or how abnormal they look and they give the cancer a score. This is the Bloom-Richardson score. The higher the number, the less the cells look like normal breast tissue. The lower the number, the more the cells look like normal breast tissue. And, in general, the higher the number, the more aggressive the cancer, the lower the number, the less aggressive the cancer. There are a number of different other factors which go into the overall prognosis but this is an important one for determining prognosis for breast cancer.