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Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with DCIS in my right breast just before Christmas. It was a total shock (as i am sure it is to everyone) i have no history of BC in my family. I have my girlfriend from...
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I am the same as you. Work offered mamogrammes in work time so thought I would go as everyone else was going. I haveonly just turned 48 in December, so didn't see the urgency to go...but glad I did. They found micro calcification in both my breasts and I had biospsy on both. My left was benighn but I ended up with Invasivie Ductucal carcimina and DCIS in my right breast. At this stage they are saying 20mm but won't know actual size until they go in.
I have decided, thanks to this site, to have a double mastecomy with immediate diep reconstruction. I am seeing surgeon again tomorrow to confirm my surgery date. Looking at 16/1 or 20/1 at this stage. They will be doing the Sentinal Node Biopsy either prior to the operation or on the same day. That also has to be confimed as the operation is going to be upto 14 hours.
I had no hesitation in wanting both breasts off but its the surgeons who try and sway your decision. I was disagonosed on the 24/11 and it is only this last week that I finally come to accept my decision as being the right decision and no one is going to change my mind now. I don't want to watch and wait to see if the left breast develops into cancer.
Good luck:)
Karon