Kefah Mokbel Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Ductal carcinoma, breast-cancer, Oncotype,large meta-analysis, radiotherapy
The London Breast Institute, The Princess Grace Hospital, The Breast Unit, University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester, UK
Kefah Mokbel was working at was working at The London Breast Institute, The Princess Grace Hospital, The Breast Unit, University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester, UK. He has more than 400 publiactions. His current research focuses on Ductal carcinoma, national mammographic screening programmes,
Editorial Open Access
Author(s): Kelly Lambert and Kefah Mokbel
Ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) is an increasingly common pre-invasive form of breast-cancer. 27% of all new breast cancer diagnoses in 2008 in the United States were DCIS as opposed to less that 1% before the introduction of national mammographic screening programmes. It is probably the pre-cursor of most invasive breast-cancer but not all DCIS will progress to this stage. So the challenge in the modern treatment of DCIS is to avoid over-treatment.
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