title: Treatment selection in primary breast cancer. Pathologic considerations.
abstract: Minimal breast cancer is defined as including in situ lobular carcinoma, noninvasive intraductal carcinoma, and invasive carcinoma forming a mass no greater than 0.5 cm in diameter. Intraductal, intralobular, and microinvasive carcinomas of this degree of development are classed together, and are associated with at most a 10% probability of having associated axillary lymph node involvement. Lesions of this classification have been shown to have a five year survival rate of 97% and a ten year rate of 95%, when they are treated surgically.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States