"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
A DCIS diagnosis – short for ductal carcinoma in situ, sometimes called “Stage 0” breast cancer – can leave you with more questions than answers. In a new patient perspective published in the Journal of Patient Experience, DCIS Understood founder Julia Stalder shares her own diagnosis story and lays out a roadmap for more transparent, patient-centered DCIS care.
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