... pathologic characteristics. Common subtypes of DCIS include cribriform, comedo, micropapillary, papillary, and solid. 6 Unlike noninvasive lesions, invasive breast cancers invade the basement membrane into ...

... to predict for in-breast recurrence, but only comedo necrosis was determined to be a significant predictor for recurrence. Similarly, of the 1,010 patients enrolled in the EORTC-10853 trial, mammography detected lesions in 71% of the women. Results were reported ...

... is poorly understood. Older studies of palpable DCIS lesions indicated that 14 to ... nuclear grade, comedo-type necrosis, tumor size; 15 and high breast ...