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I was diagnosed 21 years ago at age 41 with DCIS non-invasive had a lumpectomy and radiation of my right breast last month I started experiencing breast discharge and a biopsy was done of my left breast duct and it was positive for DCIS non-invasive. I've made the decision to have a double mastectomy. I'm feeling very depressed about the fact that my cancer came back, I'm grateful that I had 21 years before reoccurrence, and its a early cancer, but it's still hard to cope with. I was tested for the 25 genetic mutations back in 2014 and didn't test positive for any I heard there's 47 now out there and I'm going to be retested.

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@cherlea - Welcome to Mayo Connect. I am so glad that you found us. After ten years my lung cancer came back and I felt the same way you do - depressed, and very afraid. I naively thought that I was in the clear. Just humbled me and brought me down from my high horse. I am very glad that you reached out to us, and I am very very glad that you are being retested. Please keep me informed!
This is a link to the breast cancer group, if you haven't looked at it yet. It may have other topics that would help.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/breast-cancer/

@cherlea Hi 🙂 Am I understanding this correctly.....you had a double mastectomy and have had cancer come back?