Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: A Systematic Review of Incidence, Treatment, and Outcomes

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: A Systematic Review of Incidence,
Treatment, and Outcomes
Beth A. Virnig, Todd M. Tuttle, Tatyana Shamliyan, and Robert L. Kane

Link to Journal

Scientific questions deserving further investigation include the relationship between mammography use and DCIS incidence and whether imaging technologies and treatment guidelines can be modified to focus on lesions that are most likely to become clinically problematic

(Ed).. There are dangers here in this approach, as DCIS is lumped together as a disease, despite data from the SLOANE Project in the UK showing significant differences in disease outcomes and likelihood of progression to invasive disease between the high grades and the low and intermediate grades of DCIS

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