Archives: Month: September 2025
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September 29, 2025
A New Clue to Why Some DCIS Becomes Invasive Cancer
One of the biggest questions for people diagnosed with DCIS is: which cases will stay harmless inside the milk ducts, and which ones will progress to invasive breast cancer?
A new study from researchers in Finland and Sweden offers an important piece of this puzzle. They discovered that a protein called HSF2 may act like a “switch” that helps determine whether cells stay put in the ducts or begin invading surrounding breast tissue.
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September 3, 2025
Dutch Study Brings Reassuring News About Long-Term Outcomes for DCIS Patients
A new study from the Netherlands offers encouraging news for women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Researchers followed nearly 19,000 women diagnosed between 1999 and 2015 and looked at how many went on to die of breast cancer over the next decade. The results may surprise you: only about 1.3% of women died from breast cancer within ten years of their DCIS diagnosis. This suggests that, while DCIS carries some risk, the vast majority of women will not die of breast cancer in the decade following their diagnosis. The study also compared women with DCIS to the general population….
