{"id":879896,"date":"2026-10-12T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879896\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:22:09","slug":"im-an-oncologist-what-to-know-about-dcis-or-stage-0-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879896\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m an oncologist. What to know about DCIS or stage 0 breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FVIUNAAYQZCV3JM7DL26ZHSUPE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Q: Does a DCIS diagnosis mean I have breast cancer? What should I prepare myself for in terms of treatment and prognosis?<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PBKGH6ABNNASLG6NUDHEKWUXFA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A couple of years ago, my mom, at the age of 80, insisted on undergoing \u201cone last mammogram.\u201d Technically, she was beyond the age range in which they\u2019re recommended \u2014 40 to 74 \u2014 but she had just moved to Miami and started seeing a new doctor, so she wanted a clean bill of health as she started her new life. The mammogram detected a suspicious area, though, and a biopsy revealed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: Does a DCIS diagnosis mean I have breast cancer? What should I prepare myself for in terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-879896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}