B reast cancer is not a single disease but multiple ones, each carrying varying degrees of risk for endangering women’s ...

Ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, accounts for up to 25% of diagnosed breast cancers ... “If these results hold up over time, most patients who have this type of low-risk disease will have the option ...

Two studies suggest that early breast cancer patients can safely avoid specific surgeries, including lymph node removal, and ...

Research presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggests women with early-stage breast cancer could safely ...

The first study comparing surgery to active monitoring as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) finds women who carefully monitor the precancerous cells are no more likely to develop breast ...

The research, published in JAMA, suggests that active monitoring could be a viable alternative to surgery and radiation for low-risk patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), known as stage zero ...

Active monitoring for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) did not lead to a higher rate of ipsilateral invasive cancer ...

For patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), active monitoring (AM) is noninferior to guideline-concordant care (GCC) ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Some women with the earliest stages of breast cancer could be carefully monitored, undergoing surgery and radiation only if the disease advances, new data suggested.

Among patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative, low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), those who underwent active monitoring had similar two-year invasive ipsilateral breast ...

Two recent studies explore options for early-stage breast cancer patients to reduce surgery. One suggests active monitoring ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - According to the American Cancer Society, every year over 50,000 women suffer from ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS ... most patients who have this type of low-risk disease will ...