Medical Oncology

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

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Is post-mastectomy chest wall radiotherapy indicated for DCIS with very close (<1 mm) or positive margins?

Would you ever consider managing HR+ DCIS non-surgically?

If so, in what situations?

Would you consider adjuvant endocrine therapy for DCIS in a patient who received bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies?

Endocrine therapy is usually not indicated for DCIS s/p bilateral mastectomy, but would the fact that residual tissue (nipple-sparing) alter your deci...

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Do you approach the treatment of post-lumpectomy DCIS which is only present within an intraductal papilloma differently, if it does not involve adjacent breast tissue?

What considerations do you take for post-lumpectomy radiation and endocrine therapy?

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Papers discussed in this category

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-03-15

Impact of margin status on local recurrence after mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2011-05-01

Is radiation indicated in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ and close or positive mastectomy margins?

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2011-11-01

Patterns and risk factors of locoregional recurrence in T1-T2 node negative breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy: implications for postmastectomy radiotherapy.

The American journal of surgical pathology, 2006-06

An analysis of breast cancer risk in women with single, multiple, and atypical papilloma.

J Clin Oncol, 2019 Apr 11

Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial of Low-Dose Tamoxifen to Prevent Local and Contralateral Recurrence in Breast Intraepithelial Neoplasia.

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Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

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