Ductal carcinoma in situ is a precursor of breast cancer that is usually treated with surgery, radiation therapy, and estrogen blockade. A new study suggests that watchful waiting might be safe for so ...

Thompson AM, Clements K, Cheung S, Pinder SE, Lawrence G, Sawyer E, Kearins O, Ball GR, Tomlinson I, Hanby A, Thomas JSJ, Maxwell AJ, Wallis MG, Dodwell DJ; Sloane Project Steering Group (NHS ...

The first study comparing surgery to active monitoring as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS ... It doesn't always become the invasive type of cancer that can spread outside the breast.

Each year, more than 56,500 women are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a non-invasive type of breast cancer commonly referred to as Stage 0 breast cancer. A woman with DCIS is ...

While the majority of phyllodes tumors are non-cancerous ... classified as either ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive breast cancer. Although it occurs in both sexes, the U.S. National Cancer ...

Ductal carcinoma in situ, non-comedo type ... are contained within the duct or lobule and have not infiltrated (ie, non-invasive) below the basement membrane of the epithelium Intraductal ...

Among patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), those who underwent active monitoring had similar two-year invasive ipsilateral breast ...

Ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS ... health burden going through what feels like serious cancer therapy for a non-invasive diagnosis like DCIS,” Iyengar said. Doctors recommend surgery because ...