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Dense breasts/mastectomy/ongoing survei
Hi all. Since diagnosis in December of invasive ductal carcinoma Her2 positive and estrogen and progesterone positive. Found only in right breast. i was told chemo lumpectomy. Now all of a sudden surg...
I was only advised I had dense breasts when I was recalled for further testing last year. I've been having yearly mammograms since age 50 and diagnosed stage 3 DCIS in july 2019. After lumpectomy pathology showed invasive tumour 8 mm in left breast. Lymph nodes clear. MRI prior to lumpectomy showed 5mm lesion in other breast which turned out to be extensive DCIS. With those results i decided with surgeon for bilateral mastectomy. Only the MRI had picked up an issue. I didn't know i had dense breasts until then. My sister was aware and has ultrasounds every year as well as mammograms - all clear so far