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Câncer de mama in situ

Last reviewed: 2 Oct 2025
Last updated: 30 Apr 2025

Summary

Definição

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • história familiar de câncer de mama
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Other diagnostic factors

  • descarga mamilar
  • nódulo mamário
  • erupção cutânea, semelhante a eczema, no mamilo
  • ulceração
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Risk factors

  • história familiar de câncer de mama
  • doença mamária benigna em biópsia anterior
  • síndrome hereditária de câncer de mama e ovário
  • síndrome de Li-Fraumeni
  • Síndrome de Cowden
  • câncer gástrico difuso hereditário (CGDH)
  • síndrome de Peutz-Jeghers
  • Síndrome de Klinefelter
  • idade avançada na menopausa
  • idade avançada na primeira gestação a termo
  • nuliparidade
  • pouca atividade física
  • ingestão elevada de vitamina A
  • ataxia-telangiectasia
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • mamografia
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Tests to consider

  • biópsia percutânea com agulha grossa
  • biópsia excisional
  • biópsia do linfonodo sentinela (BLS)
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) da mama
  • ultrassonografia das mamas
  • perfil de receptores hormonais
  • avaliação genética
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

mulheres com carcinoma ductal in situ de baixo risco

mulheres com CDIS de alto risco; todas as mulheres com CDIS

Carcinoma lobular in situ

ONGOING

recidiva local do CDIS

Contributors

Authors

Edward R. Sauter, MD, PhD
Edward R. Sauter

Medical Officer

Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Working Group

Division of Cancer Prevention

National Cancer Institute

Bethesda

MD

Disclosures

ERS is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Dr Edward R. Sauter would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Rachel L. Ruhlen, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

RLR declares that she has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Carla Boetes, MD, PhD

Radiologist

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Disclosures

CB is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Alessandra Balduzzi, MD

Assistant in the Division of Medical Oncology

European Institute of Oncology

Milan

Italy

Disclosures

AB declares that she has no competing interests.

Kala Visvanathan, MBBS, FRACP, MHS

Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Medical Oncology

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

KV is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Glyn T. Neades, MB ChB, FRCS(Glas), FRCS(Ed), ChM

Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer

Edinburgh Breast Unit

Western General Hospital

Edinburgh

UK

Disclosures

GTN is a principal investigator for the IBIS-II trial, and is an author of a guideline cited in this topic.

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Key articles

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: breast cancer risk reduction [internet publication].Full text

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: breast cancer [internet publication].Full text

Loibl S, André F, Bachelot T, et al. Early breast cancer: ESMO clinical practice guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Ann Oncol. 2024 Feb;35(2):159-82.Full text

Morrow M, Van Zee KJ, Solin LJ, et al. Society of Surgical Oncology-American Society for Radiation Oncology-American Society of Clinical Oncology consensus guideline on margins for breast-conserving surgery with whole-breast irradiation in ductal carcinoma in situ. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Nov 20;34(33):4040-6. [Reaffirmed 2019.]Full text  Abstract

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