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Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 20 10:00am | Replies (345)Comment receiving replies
I too, have a similar situation. Just had IDC stage 1 tumor removed along with 2 very small suspicious spots. No lymph node detection. I’m 73, small frame with osteopenia. Not wanting to take the adjuvant therapy, I read that the odds of recurrent cancer is reduced as patient ages, regardless of the therapy. Any input, thank you all
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Please ask your oncologist about having genomic testing done. If you have a very low risk of recurrence, that can be somewhat reassuring. If you have a high risk, you can deal with it.
All of the statistics about breast cancer and older women are in the process of being reexamine as, it's only been relatively recently that older women started had mammograms. So relying on a thought that recurrence lessens with age is fraught with issues. It might turn out to be right but it's also possible that recurrences in older women just aren't identified (or treated) and thus not represented fully in the breast cancer statistical universe.
These are such important decisions that I think it's always good to also get a second opinion. Two oncologists concurred with my not taking anti-hormone therapy and it was important to me to get the second opinion.