Breast Cancer (DCIS)

Prognosis Excellent for Microinvasive Intraductal Carcinoma

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 6th, 1998

The widespread use of mammographic screening for breast cancers has resulted in a five-fold increase in the early detection, and therefore reported incidence, of intraductal cancer (DCIS) -- the non-invasive, earliest form of breast cancer -- as well as an increase in the detection of early stage invasive cancer.

Susan A. Silver, MD, and Fattaneh A. Tavassoli, MD, of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., reported a small but promising new study of 38 patients diagnosed between 1980 and 1996 in which women who had DCIS with microinvasion (microscopically detectable tumor dimension no larger than 2 mm) did not develop axillary (underarm) lymph node...

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