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Buchheit JT, Schacht D, Kulkarni SA. Update on Management of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. Clin Breast Cancer 2023:S1526-8209(23)00325-7. [PMID: 38216382 DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2023.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
Abstract
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) represents 18% to 25% of all diagnosed breast cancers, and is a noninvasive, nonobligate precursor lesion to invasive cancer. The diagnosis of DCIS represents a wide range of disease, including lesions with both low and high risk of progression to invasive cancer and recurrence. Over the past decade, research on the topic of DCIS has focused on the possibility of tailoring treatment for patients according to their risk for progression and recurrence, which is based on clinicopathologic, biomolecular and genetic factors. These efforts are ongoing, with recently completed and continuing clinical trials spanning the continuum of cancer care. We conducted a review to identify recent advances on the topic of diagnosis, risk stratification and management of DCIS. While novel imaging techniques have increased the rate of DCIS diagnosis, questions persist regarding the optimal management of lesions that would not be identified with conventional methods. Additionally, among trials investigating the potential for omission of surgery and use of active surveillance, 2 trials have completed accrual and 2 clinical trials are continuing to enroll patients. Identification of novel genetic patterns is expanding our potential for risk stratification and aiding our ability to de-escalate radiation and systemic therapies for DCIS. These advances provide hope for tailoring of DCIS treatment in the near future.
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- Joanna T Buchheit
- Northwestern Quality Improvement, Research, & Education in Surgery (NQUIRES), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
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Miceli R, Mercado CL, Hernandez O, Chhor C. Active Surveillance for Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia and Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. J Breast Imaging 2023; 5:396-415. [PMID: 38416903 DOI: 10.1093/jbi/wbad026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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Atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are relatively common breast lesions on the same spectrum of disease. Atypical ductal hyperblasia is a nonmalignant, high-risk lesion, and DCIS is a noninvasive malignancy. While a benefit of screening mammography is early cancer detection, it also leads to increased biopsy diagnosis of noninvasive lesions. Previously, treatment guidelines for both entities included surgical excision because of the risk of upgrade to invasive cancer after surgery and risk of progression to invasive cancer for DCIS. However, this universal management approach is not optimal for all patients because most lesions are not upgraded after surgery. Furthermore, some DCIS lesions do not progress to clinically significant invasive cancer. Overtreatment of high-risk lesions and DCIS is considered a burden on patients and clinicians and is a strain on the health care system. Extensive research has identified many potential histologic, clinical, and imaging factors that may predict ADH and DCIS upgrade and thereby help clinicians select which patients should undergo surgery and which may be appropriate for active surveillance (AS) with imaging. Additionally, multiple clinical trials are currently underway to evaluate whether AS for DCIS is feasible for a select group of patients. Recent advances in MRI, artificial intelligence, and molecular markers may also have an important role to play in stratifying patients and delineating best management guidelines. This review article discusses the available evidence regarding the feasibility and limitations of AS for ADH and DCIS, as well as recent advances in patient risk stratification.
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- Rachel Miceli
- NYU Langone Health, Department of Radiology, New York, NY, USA
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- NYU Langone Health, Department of Radiology, New York, NY, USA
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Hahn E, Rodin D, Sutradhar R, Nofech-Mozes S, Trebinjac S, Paszat LF, Rakovitch E. Can Molecular Biomarkers Help Reduce the Overtreatment of DCIS? Curr Oncol 2023; 30:5795-5806. [PMID: 37366916 DOI: 10.3390/curroncol30060433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), especially in the era of mammographic screening, is a commonly diagnosed breast tumor. Despite the low breast cancer mortality risk, management with breast conserving surgery (BCS) and radiotherapy (RT) is the prevailing treatment approach in order to reduce the risk of local recurrence (LR), including invasive LR, which carries a subsequent risk of breast cancer mortality. However, reliable and accurate individual risk prediction remains elusive and RT continues to be standardly recommended for most women with DCIS. Three molecular biomarkers have been studied to better estimate LR risk after BCS-Oncotype DX DCIS score, DCISionRT Decision Score and its associated Residual Risk subtypes, and Oncotype 21-gene Recurrence Score. All these molecular biomarkers represent important efforts towards improving predicted risk of LR after BCS. To prove clinical utility, these biomarkers require careful predictive modeling with calibration and external validation, and evidence of benefit to patients; on this front, further research is needed. Most trials do not incorporate molecular biomarkers in evaluating de-escalation of therapy for DCIS; however, one-the Prospective Evaluation of Breast-Conserving Surgery Alone in Low-Risk DCIS (ELISA) trial-incorporates the Oncotype DX DCIS score in defining a low-risk population and is an important next step in this line of research.
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- Ezra Hahn
- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
- Department of Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
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Sauder CAM, Abidi H, Bold RJ. Shifting paradigms for the treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ: Less is more. Surgery 2023:S0039-6060(23)00119-8. [PMID: 37069008 DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2023.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
Abstract
Ductal carcinoma in situ is a diverse disease in which only 50% of lesions progress to invasive carcinoma, but unfortunately, all patients receive similar treatment recommendations independent of the disease variability. De-escalation is the philosophy that treatment for this disease should be differentiated based on the likelihood of future progression and recurrence. Four surgical trials are looking at the possibility of removing surgical intervention, the current mainstay of treatment, from the algorithm. Molecular assays have been developed to help differentiate the risk of an ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and potentially guide the postsurgical utility of radiation therapy. Primary endocrine therapy is also being explored as an alternative to standard local therapy. Ductal carcinoma in situ therapy is a very complicated algorithm that should be discussed and treated through shared decision-making.
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- Candice A M Sauder
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA.
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA
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Khoury T. Preneoplastic Low-Risk Mammary Ductal Lesions (Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia and Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Spectrum): Current Status and Future Directions. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:507. [PMID: 35158775 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14030507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Intraepithelial mammary ductal neoplasia is a spectrum of disease that varies from atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), low-grade (LG), intermediate-grade (IG), to high-grade (HG) ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). While ADH has the lowest prognostic significance, HG-DCIS carries the highest risk. Due to widely used screening mammography, the number of intraepithelial mammary ductal neoplastic lesions has increased. The consequence of this practice is the increase in the number of patients who are overdiagnosed and, therefore, overtreated. The active surveillance (AS) trials are initiated to separate lesions that require active treatment from those that can be safely monitored and only be treated when they develop a change in the clinical/radiologic characteristics. At the same time, the natural history of these lesions can be evaluated. This review aims to evaluate ADH/DCIS as a spectrum of intraductal neoplastic disease (risk and histomorphology); examine the controversies of distinguishing ADH vs. DCIS and the grading of DCIS; review the upgrading for both ADH and DCIS with emphasis on the variation of methods of detection and the definitions of upgrading; and evaluate the impact of all these variables on the AS trials.
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