"I want patients to understand their options and have choices."
- Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH
"We need to tailor therapies better for individual patients….the problem is that we overtreat the many to benefit the few."
- Lawrence J. Solin, MD
"There is risk both with treatment and with treatment deescalation, and we need to be able to quantify that trade off in a much better way for an individual patient."
- Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH
"The next few years will witness the publication of major trial results and potentially chart a new course of DCIS management."
- Lars J. Grimm, MD, MHS
If you’ve had a lumpectomy for DCIS, you probably remember waiting on your pathology report — and hoping for the words “clear margins.” Many patients also remember the follow-up conversation: what happens if the margin, the rim of healthy tissue around the removed tissue, comes back narrower than your surgeon would like? For years, the answer has often been a second surgery. A large new analysis of a major randomized trial suggests that answer may be due for a second look.
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