A biosignature tool helps women avoid unnecessary radiotherapy after undergoing lumpectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) ― and also identifies women who need more intense treatment. The ...

Lumpectomy plus radiotherapy is associated with a statistically significant reduced risk for breast cancer–related death compared with either lumpectomy or mastectomy alone in women with ductal ...

Bottom Line: Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared with lumpectomy or mastectomy alone in women with ductal carcinoma ...

Bottom Line: Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared with lumpectomy or mastectomy alone in women with ductal carcinoma ...

Patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are often treated with radiation after lumpectomy, although it has remained unclear whether this can reduce the risk of dying from this noninvasive form ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When a woman gets a mammogram, doctors may see something that doesn’t look right. She could end up having a lumpectomy or a mastectomy without ever being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) for good-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) reduced long-term ipsilateral breast recurrence (IBR) by more than 50% compared with observation, results of a large ...

Older women with a very early, non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) gain no long-term benefit from undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has ...

LCCC 1025: A phase II study evaluating the mTOR inhibitor everolimus with trastuzumab and vinorelbine to treat progressive HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastases. Background: Asignificant amount ...

Abbreviations: NSABP, National Surgical Breast and Bowel Program; PMH, Princess Margaret Hospital; ABCSG, Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group; CALGB, Cancer and Leukemia Group B; GBSG, ...

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ—DCIS—who later develop invasive breast cancer in the same breast are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who do not develop invasive disease, ...

As more American women are screened for breast cancer with mammograms, doctors are seeing more of a condition called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Sometimes called a pre-cancer and sometimes Stage ...