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Positive DCIS margins: Concerned about treatment
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 11, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Hi, did your daughter end up getting radiation? I’m in a very similar boat as her. I’m 41 and just had a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction. I had ER/PR+ HER2- IDC/DCIS stage 1/grade 2 no lymph node involvement and low oncotype. I need to decide if I want radiation since I had a positive margin for the DCIS. I’m planning on taking Tamoxifen for the next 5 years. I’m leaning on not getting radiation because I worry about all the damage it can cause internally.
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She did not have radiation. The oncologist and surgeon did not think all the side effects of the radiation and risks with that were necessary but did offer to get an opinion from the radiologist. My daughter did not want radiation and so did not meet with a radiologist. She is on tamoxifen for 5 years and then maybe more.