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Radiation Oncology
How does residual DCIS after neoadjuvant chemotherapy impact prognosis if there is a CR of the invasive disease?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
The majority of studies suggest residual DCIS has the same outcome as pCR with no invasive disease and thus is still treated as pCR in practice.
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