A new study finds that the young women are no more likely to have recurrences than the older women with the breast cancer.
 
Dr. Aruna Turaka, a fellow in the departmentof radiation oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, said, earlier the presumption was that the women aged 40 and younger, diagnosed with DCIS, were more likely to have it recur. Now she found it otherwise while presenting her new study in an annual meeting in Boston on Wednesday at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.  
 
Years ago, the only treatment for breast cancer was surgical removal of the entire breast (mastectomy). Now, doctors can allow most women with early-stage cancer to keep their breasts by performing a lumpectomy (surgical removal of the tumor) and following up with radiation therapy and sometimes chemotherapy. Studies have shown that breast-conserving surgery plus radiation therapy is just as good as a mastectomy and may be preferred by many women. 

According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, DCIS is a noninvasive condition in which abnormal cells are found in the lining of a breast duct; the abnormal cells have not spilled out from the duct to other breast tissues. About 62,000 cases of in situ cancer are diagnosed each year, according to the American Cancer Society.