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Breast Cancer
Survival rates same for conservation treatment or mastectomy for recurrent DCIS
April 6th, 2004
Women who have a type of early breast cancer that is confined to the milk ducts have an equally good chance of successful recovery if the cancer recurs, regardless of how they were treated initially, researchers report. Dennis Holmes, an assistant professor of clinical surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, told the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference that results from his study offered reassuring evidence to women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) that if they chose to have only the affected area of their breast removed (lumpectomy) rather than the whole breast removed (mastectomy), it would make no difference to their chances of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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