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Breast Cancer
Rates of early-stage disease are rising, invasive cases are leveling
May 5th, 2005
Since 1980, the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, one of the most common kinds of early stage breast cancer, has increased more than 7-fold in the U.S. This sharp increase in DCIS, which is a tumor that contains cancer-like cells but is not considered "true" cancer because the cells have not invaded normal breast tissue, has been accompanied by a flattening in the incidence of true invasive breast cancer. Both trends suggest that widespread mammography screening, along with improvements in imaging technology and increased biopsy rates, among other factors, are catching breast cancer earlier, before it starts to spread and becomes more...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-05)
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