Deanna J. Attai, MD, surgeon, president, Center For Breast Care, Burbank, CA, discusses the overdiagnosis of breast cancer.
Deanna J. Attai, MD, surgeon, president, Center For Breast Care, Burbank, CA, discusses the overdiagnosis of breast cancer.
The presentation at the 2013 Breast Cancer Symposium was particularly good, Attai says, because it looked at breast cancer diagnosis from the perspective of a pathologist, radiologist, and surgeon.
Because breast cancer is a complicated disease, pathologists sometimes have a hard time determining between high-risk lesions and low-grade cancer, Attai says. Instead of just issuing a blanket statement that breast cancer is being overdiagnosed and overtreated, the oncology community needs to dig deeper into the definition and identification of the disease in order to individualize treatment.
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