http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/cancer/2009/10/22/the-confusion-over-dcis-what-to-do-about-stage-zero-breast-cancer.html
By Katherine Hobson
Posted October 22, 2009
Imagine that you go in for a regular mammogram and are told, happily, that you do not have breast cancer. But, your doctor says, you do have a significant risk factor for invasive cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), sometimes also called "stage zero" cancer. That means abnormal cells are lodged in one or more of the breast ducts—the "highways" connecting the milk-producing lobes to the nipples—but they haven't yet escaped to invade the other tissues in the breast. Will they ever do so? Maybe, maybe not.
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