smarter, faster and more cost effective. turn the page of any dictionary, land on the letter "c" and find one of the most frightening words no one wants to hear, cancer. this one word carries a loaded and complex meaning for millions of americans every year. a panel of experts advertising the national cancer institute is recommending an about face in the way doctors diagnose and treat some types of the disease that have little or no chance of being lethal. in fact, the group is even taking a closer look at what the word cancer means in some instances. for example, in women the diagnosis ductal carcinoma, is a nonlethal breast disease that should not be called cancer. >> whenever something is called carcinoma or cancer, people immediately want to act and reality is, we should be watching them as opposed to aggressively treating. >> 66-year-old roux harris wishes he had taken a conservative approach to a
thank you for joining us today. >> it's my pleasure. happy thanksgiving. my first question is an obvious one. what should women take away from this study? >> well, you know, i do agree. what happened -- this is a study that is very similar to several years ago when the u.s. prevented a task force and said that women should not give mammogrammammogram s even though back in 2002, they said that they should. the reason is they said that they are not saving enough. only one in 1900 women are prevented by mammograms in their 40s. this study is saying that it is taking us such small tumors that we don't know what these tumors will be fatal or legal. there is something called ductal carcinoma and what happens with that is that it never really spreads beyond.
cancer. sbroe ductal cancer known as ductal carcinoma, offer referred to as dcif for short. the word "carcinoma" means it begins in the tissue like the breast tissue. this starts inside the milk ducts. in her case the news is encouraging because the cancer is isolated and had not spread to the surrounding tissue 37 but like more than a million women worldwide is diagnosis came as a shock. she didn't feel sick at all. she was the picture of health. and fitness. >> i heard on february 24th, which is kind of my 9/11, you don't forget that date when your life is changed forever. although i did not hear the word cancer. i heard "your biopsy was positive." i'm like, positive usually is good. that's not good. what does that mean? the first thought was, of course, this can't be happening. but, yeah, it was happening. i was in denial for about two