intraductal carcinomas การใช้

• Forty percent of the tumors detected in younger women are of this type, called intraductal carcinoma in situ.
• Some forms of CIS ( e . g ., intraductal carcinoma of the breast ( also treated with radiotherapy ).
• Kaufman's cancer is said to be intraductal carcinoma, an early form of the disease that is confined to milk glands and responds well to treatment.
• Commonly referred to as DCIS, or intraductal carcinoma, they are noninvasive, meaning they have not spread to other tissue in the breast or to lymph nodes or other parts of the body.
• Tamoxifen, also called Nolvadex, is the first drug approved to treat intraductal carcinoma, which is a very early form of breast cancer that is still confined to the cells lining the milk ducts.
• One skeptic was Dr . Virginia Ernster, an epidemiologist at the University of California at San Francisco, who said 40 percent of the lumps found by mammograms in women of that age were an ambiguous sort of tiny tumor, called intraductal carcinoma in situ.
• The drug tamoxifen, already widely prescribed to treat breast cancer and to help prevent it in women at high risk for the disease, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday for another use : to lower the risk of invasive breast cancer in women who have had surgery and radiation for ductal carcinoma in situ, often referred to as DCIS or intraductal carcinoma.
• DCIS, or intraductal carcinoma, is by definition a breast cancer that is limited to the lining of the milk ducts, and accounts for about 20 % of breast cancer in the US . Although early treatment of DCIS was similar to invasive breast cancer, involving full mastectomy and sometimes lymph node dissection, an evolution in understanding about the different kinds of breast cancer prompted investigations into the adequacy of less extreme surgical treatments.