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According to a study of 5.2 million U.K. women published in the journal Lancet Oncology, detecting and treating ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) lowers the number of invasive breast cancers found over the next three years. For every three cases of DCIS detected and treated, one fewer case of invasive cancer was diagnosed in the following three years than would have been without early intervention, the study found. The study was led by SBI member and Honorary Fellow, Stephen Duffy, MD.
NBC Nightly News (12/5, story 8, 2:10, Welker) reported, in continuing coverage, that a new study found that false positive mammograms may be a new warning sign for breast cancer that some doctors now “say should...be added to the list of risk factors for the disease.”