Decision time - lumpectomy or masectomy?
It's been quite a interesting three weeks or so for me. An inflamed breast, biopsy, inconclusive results, surgical biopsy and today a diagnosis of high grade intaductal carcinoma with prominent atropi...
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Hi Terrie, I have an Invasive Ductal Carcinoma and DCIS in the same right breast. Also with no cancer in my family. I was informed that they prefer not to do mastectomies on larger breast women. I'm a 14D. So had a lumpectomy, no clear margins, then had a re-excision. I had early breast cancers. Started chemo then my next appointment with Surgeon was told I still had no clear margins. (which was a shock after going through everything), So had to wait until after chemo finished. I have decided to have a bi-lateral mastectomy - no reconstruction. I could have had another re-excision but after two goes, I decided to have them removed. As Rowdy says -- ask questions... My operation is on the 18th January and I did not need to have radiation because I am having the mastectomy..
Hope everything goes well. Christina