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Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 12, 2023 | Replies (1190)
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@shelleyc

I am going to comment one more time regarding the cancer coming back somewhere else. I have now discussed this with 3 doctors at MD Anderson breast cancer center. DCIS is called that because it is in the ducts. DCIS does not come back in another area. Could you get another cancer somewhere else? Yes but it will not be from DCIS. I have questioned that to each doctor and they said if someone is saying that they are wrong.

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cindylb | @cindylb | Aug 17, 2020

DCIS - means 'in situ' or within the duct. The cancer has not spread outside the duct......but DCIS can evolve into an invasive cancer that spreads outside the duct and further. It may or may not do this. If it does become invasive it can leave the breast via the lymph nodes most commonly and spread to other areas of the body. I think that may be what was being referenced?

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