© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 4, 287,
February 16, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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In many patients, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) lesions of the breast recur, and recurrence may indicate residual disease. Waldman et al. (p. 313) examined the relationship between initial and recurrent DCIS tumors by using comparative genomic hybridization, which looks at comparatively large-scale alterations in chromosomes. They found that, in 17 of 18 tumor pairs studied, the initial and recurrent DCIS lesions appeared to be clonally related. This result is based on the number of chromosomal alterations that the tumor
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