Surgical de-escalation: Are we ready for ‘observation’ of benign high-risk breast lesions found on core needle biopsy?

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Definitions surrounding surgical de-escalation

Radiologic-pathologic concordance	The imaging and pathologic findings are considered to be concordant when the pathologic result provides an acceptable explanation for the imaging feature and discordant when they do not
Overdiagnosis	Finding cases of cancer with a screening test (such as a mammography) that will never cause any symptoms
Overtreatment	Interventions that do not benefit the patient or where the risk of harm from the intervention is likely to outweigh any benefit the patient will receive