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>>> Dr. JAY HARNESS: Stage 0, by definition, is in situ breast cancer. So the treatment
certainly involves surgery and certainly involves a removal of the area of the in situ breast
cancer. This can be done by a lumpectomy, or some patients actually choose mastectomy.
The mastectomy would be completely curative and no additional treatment would be needed.
However, if a patient chooses a lumpectomy or the medical term for that is ‘partial
mastectomy’, then typically other adjunctive treatments are needed. The most common of
which is radiation therapy to the breast.
And then also, we may use anti-estrogen medications, anti-estrogen pills – depending on the size
of the in situ breast cancer. The bottom line is that the treatment of in situ breast cancer
is a local treatment. We don’t have to treat the whole body.
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