Is early breast cancer overtreated?
CNNStory highlights More than 60,000 women diagnosed with Ductal carcinoma in situ annually DCIS, known as Stage 0, does not always result in breast cancer CNN — More than 60% of all women over 40 in the United States have had a mammogram in the past two years. And 20% of mammograms detect something called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS – also known as Stage 0 breast cancer. Tracking more than 100,000 women diagnosed with DCIS for 20 years, Dr. Steven Narod, of the Women’s College Research Institute in Toronto, and his colleagues found that women treated for DCIS had a similar chance of dying from breast cancer as those who had never been diagnosed. Not only did women who were treated have similar chances of dying from breast cancer as those who hadn’t been treated, but also the type of treatment didn’t seem to make much a difference.
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