JODI

Sharon

Maybe each state is different.  One can call it "pre-cancer" if it makes that person deal with it better.  Its important to deal with it and take care of it:<}  Or the beast will bite you in the you know what.  I will look up NIH and do more reading.  Like I said this is a funny debate to have.  I cant help to think how trivial  the tittle"pre-cancer" has on women who dx was bilat mast.  

Jodi

Beesie

Thats very interesting and I plan on hopping on that site to check it out.  I have been reading ALOT of books and everyone of them (all written with in the past 10 years) and all of them label dcis as non invasive  cancer.  One dr.   stated how it could be dangerous for other Dr.s to tell their patiants that its pre-cancer.  I know the debate will go on and on.  Just remember this......fact....the breast cancer survival in usa has gone up ALOT, and the dx has gotten younger and younger.  dcis is classified in that statistic.

 Diana-VENT AWAY....:<}!!!!!!  We all need to do that.  Feelings are OK to feel and they are OK to feel them HARD!!!!  I cant and wont tell you to "cheer up" or (my fave) "snap out of it, life can get worse".  What I want you to know from one women to another......is HOLD ON.  Its going to be a bumpy ride, but this ride does slow down.  You have to be a STRONG WOMEN to go through all you have been through, and YOU are STRONG enough to see this through too.   I stopped getting all the different opinions and went with my gut feeling (on dcis).  Its a personal choice, and what ever choice you make you WILL be there for your beautiful daughers wedding.

 please dont loose your hope

Jodi

thank you for your story.  I feel like I made the right decision (bilat mast), but I do tend to secound guess myself out of pure fright!!!!!  I am going to my ps this friday and will see my oncologist the following weds.  Ive read SO MUCH info that I dream about it.  I want to avoid further operations in my future.  My microcalcification grew in one year and formed cancer.  My dr. did tell me that even if the cancer doesnt come back (after lump and rads} my calsicication prbably will and I will WORRY.....I know I feel like a broken recored.  Just trying to grip my reality:<} 

thank you sooooo much for being apart of my mind restoration:<}

Jodi

hi

i was dx sept4th and will be making a date soon for a bilat mast.  You will be FINE:<}!!!!  I went to the  mastectomy reconstruction page and I read read read.  Now I am prepared for the good, bad and the all new me....at least right now at 6:20am.  what kind are you getting.  I was told by my surgeon that I would need expanders and tehn an implant.  I am going to my ps this friday.  I cry sometimes and I still dont believe its happening to me.  But then I talk to women who go through chemo and are fighting HARD for their lives and I think WOW OK loosing a breast is HARD!!!!!!  I am 36 years old not too bad looking but after the breast are gone my fight is 99.9% OVER!!!!!  WE have great odds for beating this dcis. Keep your chin up and cry when you need to and laugh when you can

jodi

Avasmom-   I am right there with you my friend.  Im curious  to know where sharon lives.  Maybe its different there. 

I just dont want women out there to think that dcis in NOT cancer!!!!  thats why its called Ductal (its in the duct) CARCINOMA (another word for cancer) in situ.  It wont kill you (or me) thank goodness b/c its caught at the earliest time and is VERY treatable..just do your homework.....read read read:<}

Hi

I had a biop and now I plan on having a bilat mast b/c of all the reasons stated in the above (general response)  when they do a mast they will check my snl and take out all the breast tissue and check it all, so I dont have to worry about reacurrence.  My microcalsification grew in one year and formed dcis in one year.  THATS SCARY.  like I said this is quite the ride.  I feel fine (emotionaly) during the day....night time stinks!!!!!!  the reality of it all is alot to take in,

jodi

thank you guys I cant begin to tell you how much hearing from you all helps.  I will keep you all posted.  This is a wild ride.  I am going to visit my friends before my surgery....they are having a "say good bye to my boobs, hello new ones" party.  I always had the pretty breast among my friends...at least the only real ones.:<}

thank you newbie I will look that up right now.  thank you ladies again for all the support you give...

 Julie  hi all couldnt get in under jade....so i used Jodi.  I am going to the ps on this Friday and my oncologist on the 26th.  I know how you feel wren about NOT EVER wanting to deal with this again!!!!!  I dont either.  I have been hitting ALOT of reconstruction sites (doesnt that sound odd) and preparing myself.  I cant wait till I can ex hale again ....you know.   I am 36 years old and I feel like I am 10yrs old when I go to the dr.  Thank goodness I have my husband with me so he can translate.