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Ductal carcinoma in situ in one breast, lobular hyperplasia in other
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Dec 27, 2022 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
First- Don’t rush into decision making!! You have enough time to get several opinions from major cancer specialists.
I got a second opinion from Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan with the top oncologist at the time.
I’m just adding a comment regarding treatment-
Be aware of consequences later on in life after radiation- and definitely chemo. Obviously, most of the time we don’t have a choice.
I had invasive ductal carcinoma in one breast. Due to the size I had a mastectomy and chemo. I wanted them to take the other breast too- but they wouldn’t do that 29 years ago. I was 48 at the time.
15 years later I started getting autoimmune illnesses, mostly intestinal and linked to severe GI reaction I had with chemo.
You will have time to make the right decision for you.
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Thank you for your detail reply. I have been told at Mayo that radiation these days are not harmful…and they are focused on area not affecting other organs but still don’t know unknowns behind that.. so worried about making decision about lumpectomy plus radiation or bilateral mastectomy.
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Thank you for posting this! When we are young with cancer, we focus on the life we want to have and the doctors focus on saving our life. There are long term side effects to these treatments that some are just being discovered some they know, some they have yet to learn. I like you try to be positive about it, but understand now that my aging looks and feels much different than others around me.