It's a fairly common story, unfortunately. I was diagnosed with ILC, 2.5cm and no node involvement and treatment was to be a wide excision followed by rads and hormone therapy. Path report back after surgery - 4.5cm with no clear margin and 3 nodes involved so a mastecomy and axillary dissection then chemo and rads + Letrozole. Chemo is no fun but it is doable for most of us - some fortunates, like @afraser, sail through with little issue. Radiation is barely a blip in the radar for many - a nuisance to go in every day and some local pain if the skin breaks down.