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Precancerous lesions of the breast

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Arising from: Costa A and Zanini V (2008) Precancerous lesions of the breast. Nat Clin Pract Oncol 5: 700–704 doi:10.1038/ncponc1239

The recent review by Costa and Zanini entitled “Precancerous lesions of the breast” is a nicely written and very timely discussion of an important problem that is becoming much more frequent.1 The article clearly points out some of the paradoxes and clinical enigmas in managing these difficult lesions. We are strong advocates, however, of the ductal intraepithelial neoplasia (DIN) and lobular intraepithelial neoplasia (LIN) terminology.2,3,4,5 We believe that adoption of this terminology will help clarify some of the confusion about the underlying biology. In this regard, we would like to pose a couple of questions and raise some points that we are sure specialists in breast cancer would be interested in.

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    Fattaneh A Tavassoli & Donald R Lannin

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Tavassoli, F., Lannin, D. Precancerous lesions of the breast. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 6, E1 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc1344

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