title: Intraductal carcinoma (DCIS) of the breast. Risk-adapted tumor surgery with axillary lymphadenectomy?
abstract: Between 1963 and April 1994, 3823 women were treated both at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik Berlin-Charlottenburg as well as at the I. Frauenklinik der Universität München, for a malignant condition of the breast gland. 161 of these (4.2%) exhibited an intraductal carcinoma stage pTis, whilst 99 (61.5%) were axillary lymphadenectomised. During the observation time-span of up to 24 years, 9 patients (5.6%) developed local recurrence. In neither patients of the group with axillary nor without axillary dissection could a regional recurrence be observed within this period. Also, a generalisation of this condition was not recorded in any patient. On the basis of our own results and those from the literature we postulate that, under the auspices of a risk adapted tumor surgery, axillary lymphadenectomy is no longer necessary under certain conditions in non-invasive breast carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: I.Frauenklinik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dimpfl
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Genz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hecher
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kindermann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged