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These lesions are called precancers, premalignancies, preneoplastic lesions, incipient cancers, intraepithelial neoplasias, and preinvasive cancers.
Carcinoma of cervix uteri (cervical cancer, CC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide [ 1 2 ] . CC arises by distinct morphologic changes from normal epithelium and progresses to carcinoma through a series of well-defined preinvasive lesions.
We have therefore begun to examine ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), which are preinvasive malignant lesions derived from epithelial cells, and fibroadenomas, which are non-malignant tumors composed of epithelial and stromal cells [ 32 33 ] . So far we have analyzed one DCIS, which was BP1-positive, and two fibroadenomas, both of which were BP1-positive, compared with no expression in the matched normal tissue for each fibroadenoma (data not shown).
This indicates that different components from an individual tumor can represent genetically divergent clones, even at the preinvasive stage of DCIS.
Such an understanding is necessary if detection of LOH or other genetic abnormalities will ever allow for consistent and useful identification of preinvasive breast lesions at higher risk of progression.