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Hello it's been just a long process already and still yet to start treatments. I was diagnosed on the 15th of August. Scan said 2cm mixed duct. Had a lumpectomy on the 5th of Sept and just got my resu...
Hi @Natwitts,
Welcome lovely. The ladies have got everything covered as usual. Just wanted to say hi. I was grade 2 stage 2 but standard garden variety DCIS. The stage and grade becomes irrelevant after the start. No body has ever mentioned it too me again and I had to ask my breast care nurse to find out anyway. The doctors never said anything.
My breast tumour was a bitch to find. The MRI was the only thing that could spot it (we knew it was there because I had found the lump in my nodes to start with). It was exactly the size the MRI said to the mm.
It still surprises me that MRI is not standard at the time of diagnosis. Cost factor I guess. That way we'd all get one big bloody shock instead of two.
All the best for a clear MRI result. Big hugs. xoxoxo
Welcome lovely. The ladies have got everything covered as usual. Just wanted to say hi. I was grade 2 stage 2 but standard garden variety DCIS. The stage and grade becomes irrelevant after the start. No body has ever mentioned it too me again and I had to ask my breast care nurse to find out anyway. The doctors never said anything.
My breast tumour was a bitch to find. The MRI was the only thing that could spot it (we knew it was there because I had found the lump in my nodes to start with). It was exactly the size the MRI said to the mm.
It still surprises me that MRI is not standard at the time of diagnosis. Cost factor I guess. That way we'd all get one big bloody shock instead of two.
All the best for a clear MRI result. Big hugs. xoxoxo