Laura

Ooopsy sorry lovey, DCIS is ductal carcinoma insitu. It's when there are cancer cells inside the milk ducts that haven't broken out into the surrounding tissue. DCIS is often picked up on mammogram in lots of women and people sometimes refer to it as "pre cancer" my pathology had a mix of DCIS and invasive tumour in it and my first excision had DCIS in the margin so I had to go back to have more taken. The 2nd excision had 2 ducts with DCIS in them within 1mm of the border which is too close for me so I will be asking for more surgery at the end of chemo. I don't want to risk even 1 cell being left behind to grow into another tumour. MDT stands for multi-disciplinary-team. MDT's are basically a group of different clinicians: doctors, surgeons, nurses, radiologists, pathologists etc who come together and look at a patients case to discuss the best treatment. In my breast MDT there are the breast surgeons, the medical oncologists (chemo docs) radiation oncologists (radiotherapy docs) pathologists (the ones that look at the stuff under the microscope) breast care nurses, clinical psychologists, social workers etc. All new breast cancer cases are presented and they all discuss the best way to proceed. In my case they looked at my pathology on a big screen and blah blah'd about what to do. It was decided that it was most likely that all the cancer cells were gone, but that they would monitor me with scans very closely. Unfortunately my med onc wasn't there as she was at a conference and I have a feeling she would have pushed for more surgery. But that's what she is doing now so we are all good! :) also my genetic tests are back and I get them this week. If we are positive both of those bad boys will be whipped off anyway! Hope this clears things up for you. xx Dan xx