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LCIS

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LCIS lobular carcinoma in situ.
LCIS
Lobular carcinoma in situ, see there
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Major risk factors for breast cancer Increasing age Postmenopausal BRCA gene positive or strong family history Multiple 1st- and 2nd-degree relatives with breast and ovarian cancer 1st-degree relative diagnosed with breast cancer before 50 years Male relatives diagnosed with breast cancer Jewish ancestry with family history Previous breast cancer or DCIS or LCIS or atypia Longstanding exposure to unopposed oestrogens Chest wall irradiation Table III.
Breast cancer is a very common cancer among women world-wide by Marr, Ian; Panieri, Eugenio; Whittaker, Judy / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS): LCIS means that abnormal cells are contained within a lobule of your breast, but they haven't invaded the surrounding breast tissue.
"You have breast cancer": what to do after you hear the diagnosis by Byron, Su / Sarasota Magazine
7,8) There is controversy about how patients with LCIS or ALH diagnosed by NCB should be managed clinically.
Excisional biopsy should be performed if lobular carcinoma in situ is ... by Shin, Sandra J.; Rosen, Paul Peter / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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