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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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@callalloo

Take it a step at a time if you can. For one thing, a lot will be learned from the surgery, the size of tumor when the surgeon is actually "in there" as my surgeon referred to it, sentinel lymph biopsy if being done and post-surgery biopsy results. If you're a candidate for genomic testing, that can also yield a lot of information. So a lot of decisions you're pondering now might not even be recommended when all the data is in. I worried about decisions that, happily, I didn't have to make. That was a huge benefit of, in my case, the OncotypeDX test.

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So true. I have a little poster that says, “Focus on the Step in Front of You, Not the Whole Staircase!” I have to try and slow down inside - One Step at a Time. Ugh!

I will be asking about the Oncotype DX test a few days before surgery. Thank you for your reply.