Watch and wait may be an alternative to surgery for some women with a very early form of breast cancer.
A new study of 957 women evaluated whether it was safe to do active monitoring of a low-risk form of ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS — a noninvasive cancer, often called Stage 0 breast cancer, that hasn’t spread beyond the milk ducts — as an alternative to surgery (SN: 8/30/24).
After two years of follow-up, women who were assigned to get active monitoring had no more invasive breast cancer than women assigned to get surgery, researchers report December 12 in JAMA. In fact, in the surgery group, there
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