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Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 20 10:00am | Replies (345)
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@windyshores

If the DCIS is contained and not invasive, you will probably have a lumpectomy but choices about other treatments. It is true that contained DCIS is considered by some to be a pre-cancer so anything you do may be preventative rather than treating an active cancer. You may have an Oncotype test done to help guide decisions.

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kathyomaha55 | @kathyomaha55 | Aug 24, 2022

I even had a lumpectomy when it was just "micro calcifications" - these are pre-cancerous as well. I had one in 2016 - 2 years before being diagnosed with IDC. The Oncotype test is a gene test done on the tissue removed. Mine was 22 - so no chemo.

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tctredwell1 | @tctredwell1 | Aug 24, 2022

Thank you.

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