title: Minimal breast cancer.
abstract: Minimal breast cancer includes noninvasive cancer (Paget's disease, ductal, or lobular) and/or small invasive cancers which measure less than 0.5 cm. These cancers can be multicentric and bilateral, may have regional or distant metastases, and are occasionally lethal. Surgical treatment ranges from none to radical mastectomy, although total mastectomy in continuity with low axillary lymphadenectomy is the most common. Primary radiation therapy is used to a lesser extent.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011379:Prognosis