Cancer is typically treated with surgery, radiation and sometimes chemotherapy. But a new study suggests this standard protocol might not be necessary for a common form of early-stage breast cancer.

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 ...

Just a year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, and following three surgeries, 15 hours of radiation treatments and ...

If you’re diagnosed with cancer, asking which stage is likely one of your first questions. Stage 1 is the earliest, most treatable stage of cancer, while stage 4 is the most advanced and difficult to ...

Waiting and seeing is not often the strategy employed when it comes to treating breast cancer, but a new clinical trial by ...

Mar. 24 -- TUESDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Many women diagnosed with a precancerous breast lesion known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are highly anxious about their prognosis, even though ...

SAN ANTONIO – 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 ...

Surgery might be unnecessary for patients with low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Instead, they could be managed with active surveillance. That bombshell conclusion comes from a retrospective ...

A team of researchers mapping a molecular atlas for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has made a major advance toward distinguishing whether the early pre-cancers in the breast will develop into ...

CLEVELAND — Barbara Sandon Norris thought she had every reason to celebrate in May. Seven years cancer-free with a clean mammogram, the 72-year-old Cleveland woman almost skipped her routine follow-up ...