Early stage breast cancer is NOT an emergency, experts say

by Candice May, FSP Health & Fitness, 24 August 2015

Finally, some positive breast cancer news… According to a new study, only 3% of women diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer will die of the disease within 20 years. And, more aggressive treatment won't improve this high survival rate.

“The good news is that death is pretty rare,” said study author Steven Narod, director of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at Women's College Research Institute in Toronto. “Clinically, the fact is that 3% in the big picture should be reassuring.”

The researchers did however find that the death rates for both younger women and black patients diagnosed with this early stage cancer were higher. Read on to learn more.

New research finds that there’s a low risk of dying from early stage breast cancer

The early stage breast cancer that they studied is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a small, localised cluster of cancer cells. About 20% to 25% of breast cancers that mammogram screening detects are DCIS. It is considered a stage 0 cancer that does not escape its location in the breast, the researchers said. Cancer that spreads into the rest of the breast or beyond is “invasive”.

“One clinical implication is to reiterate that DCIS is not an ‘emergency,’ ” said Sarah Hawley, a cancer research specialist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “The study supports that the risk of dying is extremely low for these patients.”

Risk factors associated with early stage breast cancer

In an accompanying editorial, Laura Esserman and Christina Yau, both from the University of California, San Francisco, wrote that DCIS looks different in younger women, causing symptoms such as a detectable mass or bloody nipple discharge. Because screening in women under age 40 is rare, they said, these symptoms are usually how younger women end up on the clinical radar.

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Some other risk factors for a rogue DCIS include whether or not it responds to hormones, carries certain versions of cancer-related genes or is 2 inches across or larger.

These risk factors have yet to lead to different treatments for younger women or black women who are diagnosed with DCIS. Hawley said that with further research, more targeted treatments might be possible for women who are at higher risk.

Narod suggested that for populations with the highest risk, at some point, chemotherapy might become an option to deal with DCIS cells that may be lingering somewhere outside the treated breast.

In spite of some heightened concerns for specific high-risk groups, the results are generally promising for women who receive a DCIS diagnosis. Narod points out that the overall risk of dying because of DCIS is “not as bad as having a family history of breast cancer or high-density breast tissue.”

Indeed, Esserman and Yau viewed the results as a reason to reduce a sense of urgency. They write that “given the low breast cancer mortality risk, we should stop telling women . . . that they should schedule definitive surgery within two weeks of diagnosis.”

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Tags: dcis, early stage breast cancer, cancer, breast cancer, cancer news, women's cancer, breast cancer risk, breast cancer death

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