good question
Jean, what Melissa may be asking is whether, when surgery is done, do the ducts cut in the process of doing surgery release the DCIS to then develop into IDC? In other words, although DCIS is ductal originally, can surgery release it from the ducts and would it then logically possibly be more capable of evolving into breast cancer? Or is there something about the development of DCIS that causes it generally to not become IDC even if it manages to be released by surgery from the duct?
Interesting question.
AlaskaAngel
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