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Meena Moran, MD, on Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Improving Local Control

2016 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Meena Moran, MD, of Yale University, discusses an analysis from 10 pooled academic institutions that showed a radiation boost after whole breast radiation therapy improves local control of this disease. (Abstract 324)



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