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...meantime, women like Nancy Ulene who discover they have breast cancer have to decide what to do with their lives and their breasts based on information currently available. There are days when many women would probably agree with Ulene's assessment that it's all a "crapshoot" anyway. After much soul-searching, she finally opted for a partial mastectomy and tamoxifen. It may not happen today. It may not happen tomorrow. But eventually those decisions will start to get easier...
...MORE INFORMATION The National Cancer Institute's hot line at 1-800-4-CANCER can answer questions about cancer diagnosis and treatment and offer tips for preventing breast cancer. On the Web, visit www.cancer.gov
...Every breast cancer is a little different, but many follow a fairly standard course. How each is treated depends on how early it is discovered, how aggressively it is spreading and how it responds to antihormone treatments and other drugs...
...DEFINITION Cells that look like cancer but have not invaded surrounding tissue are called ductal carcinoma in situ (cancer confined to the duct). The lesions may be tiny as pinpoints and may pop up throughout the breast...
...OUTLOOK Very good. Virtually no one dies of breast cancer within five years of treatment for DCIS. No one knows what percentage of DCIS lesions eventually become invasive...