Surveillance safe for non-cancerous breast lesion typically treated surgically

(American College of Surgeons) The detection of certain non-cancerous 'high risk' breast lesions can lead to surgical treatment in women, but one of the largest studies of a specific type of high-risk lesion, flat epithelial atypia, calls for close observation, rather than surgical removal of these lesions in most cases, according to study results published on the website of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons in advance of print.
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