Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European
Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a maste
Breast Cancer Conference that
although the majority of
women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease,
large numbers of
women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed
breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a maste
breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.