Just diagnosed, in treatment, or finished treatment for DCIS.
For helpful information, check out Breastcancer.org's DCIS section. There is also advice and personal experiences from other community members here on the discussion boards, including: A layperson's guide to DCIS Hope this helps! The Mods
Hello to all you brave women!! I just joined this site and am making my first post. I am hoping for guidance and advice and what anyone else has done as I am feeling anxiety and some stress about what to do. I am 55 years old and was diagnosed in June at 54 years. (I just had a birthday in Oct) As in my title I was…
I am 11 year survivor and just has an elevation to 42 from 30 on the CA 27-29. I have to wait 4 weeks for new bloodwork. I am so nervous. Anyone have a similar experience.
Hello everyone. I had a mastectomy for Stage IIA breast cancer in 2022. No nodes or metastases. Started on Letrozole in 2022. I was very fit and well till then. The side effects, pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, feeling low are really getting to me. My lipid profile is altered and there is osteopenia. I have been…
I had Stage 2 triple positive IDC 10 years ago at age 39. I was treated with 6 rounds of neoadjuvant TCHP, a lumpectomy, radiation, and about 7.5 years of Tamoxifen. I was recently diagnosed with a small section of intermediate grade DCIS with microinvasions in the other breast. On one hand I'm glad it is DCIS and I'm not…
I had DCIS 18 years ago, treated with lumpectomy and radiation; I was 41 and premenopausal at diagnosis. I tried Tamoxifen but stopped after 6 weeks because I couldn't tolerate it. Now I have DCIS again, same breast. My sister was diagnosed with advanced invasive breast cancer at 39. I tested as BRCA negative 18 years ago.…
I was diagnosed with grade 3 DCIS in April. I had a partial mastectomy, 3 of the locations did not have wide enough margins but were clean. Dr recommended a second surgery to get the margins needed. Heard back from him yesterday and one of the three had DCIS. The surgeon was surprised at that based on my imaging and the…
Hello I am new here. I was diagnosed with DCIS high grade in April on my left breast. I have DMX scheduled for next month. I’ve been reading that DCIS does not have any symptoms. But I’ve been having sharp pain (like electric shock kinda pain); throbbing pain,very itchy around my breast area. Couple days ago I noticed my…
Greetings y'all, I learned on Thursday that the pathologist found DCIS in two biopsy samples taken from a clumped 3.6 cm lesion in my left breast (which was discovered via a MRI scan). The radiologist was unable to biopsy an additional 0.9 cm area of nonmass enhancement noted posterior along the pectoralis muscle 1.1 cm…
I have a recent diagnosis with DCIS moderate to high grade. Has anyone else received this diagnosis and chosen to do nothing but monitor the situation? I went from biopsy and ultrasound results with a likely lumpectomy to the MRI results with a 4cm + area and recommendation for a masectomy to remove the 'cancer'. Any…
Hi all, Would love to start a thread for those with DCIS who chose surgery only, no RT or HR meds. I've done a lot of research and am comfortable with my decision based on my pathology and low Oncotype score. I will have monitoring twice a year, once w GYN & mammogram and once w BS & ultrasound, so should anything change…
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