What is ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS)?
DCIS is a form of breast cancer that is now diagnosed more frequently as a result of the widespread use of screening mammography. Most women with this condition have no symptoms, but are diagnosed via mammographic findings. In our experience, approximately 1 out of 5 women who require a biopsy due to suspicious mammographic findings have a positive diagnosis of DCIS. Link to: Just Diagnosed DCIS originates near the origin of the ductal system, adjacent to the lobules. Lobules make milk, which flows along the duct to exit the nipple. Normal ducts are composed of small, even rectangular cells, with small, central round nuclei. It is thought that an early stage in the development of breast cancer is hyperplasia, in which the cells become irregular and pile up upon themselves within the duct. In DCIS, the ducts are lined by cells that are irregular in shape and tend to be larger than normal in size, and the nuclei of these cells also become enlarged and more distorted. In both hyperplasia
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