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Sometimes regenerating breast cells mutate—reasons unknown—and collect in the breast ducts. When the mutated cells stay within the ducts, it is Ductal Carcinoma In-situ, or DCIS; when these atypical cells break out of the ducts invading surrounding tissue, it becomes infiltrating ductal carcinoma, or IDC.
