DCIS - Mastectomy or Lumpectomy
Hi everyone, - well here I am.... joining this amazing group of supportive women and wishing I wasn't here!! I have just been diagnosed with DCIS (2) in one breast. My mum and her mum both had B...
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Hi there
yes the first few weeks following a BC diagnosis are overwhelming .
I found it helped to take my husband to all my medical appointments as I only remembered at most half of what was said.
I had a large (5.5cm) lobular camcer and when the full size became apparent my very experienced breast cancer surgeon said that a lumpectomy was not a realistic option , a mastectomy was the recommended course.
I took his advice and ended up having a double mastectomy ( that’s another story) with DIEP flap reconstruction.
It wasn’t in my lymph nodes so I was not recommended chemo only radiotherapy followed by at least 5 years of hormone therapy.
I took all the advice and am now 2 years down the track and feeling more like the “old me “ every day ( although it f course the old me will never really come back fully).
You will find lots of good resources on this website including this forum.
I found the emotional impacts of the diagnosis just as challenging as the physical ones and had a couple of sessions with a psychologist who specialised in cancer related stress which helped.
Take care.🌺
yes the first few weeks following a BC diagnosis are overwhelming .
I found it helped to take my husband to all my medical appointments as I only remembered at most half of what was said.
I had a large (5.5cm) lobular camcer and when the full size became apparent my very experienced breast cancer surgeon said that a lumpectomy was not a realistic option , a mastectomy was the recommended course.
I took his advice and ended up having a double mastectomy ( that’s another story) with DIEP flap reconstruction.
It wasn’t in my lymph nodes so I was not recommended chemo only radiotherapy followed by at least 5 years of hormone therapy.
I took all the advice and am now 2 years down the track and feeling more like the “old me “ every day ( although it f course the old me will never really come back fully).
You will find lots of good resources on this website including this forum.
I found the emotional impacts of the diagnosis just as challenging as the physical ones and had a couple of sessions with a psychologist who specialised in cancer related stress which helped.
Take care.🌺