“…DCIS accounts for 12-15% of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases, about 39,000 per year in the United States (Winchester et al, 2000;Silverstein, 2000). A better understanding of the relationship between non-invasive and invasive breast lesions could yield improvements in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment (Fisher, 1996;O'Shaughnessy et al, 2002;Hong, 2002, Burstein et al, 2004).…”