[Clinical guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients with non-invasive breast cancer]. / Klinicke smjernice za dijagnostiku, lijecenje i pracenje bolesnika s neinvazivnim rakom dojke.

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. Early diagnosis and more effective treatment of invasive breast cancer resulted in significant mortality reduction, improvement of survival and the quality of life of the patients. The management od non-invasive breast cancer, on the contrary, is still controversial and the problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of patients come to evidence. In the following text a multidisciplinary team of experts brings the first consensus guidelines aimed to standardize and optimize the criteria and management in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of non-invasive breast cancer patients in the Republic of Croatia.