Time October 2015 article

Ah that explains a lot in my case. I think my GP presumed based on initial tests that I had DCIS the non invasive sort and possibly spread that thought on to my surgeon in his email contacts.

My surgeon not satisfied with that idea then ordered a core biopsy which at least told him it was aggressive not passive (which just going off the pill would have settled down).

Surgery to me wasn't fast enough although in their scheme of things it was and now I am waiting for the next surgery to get it out of my lymph nodes so yes it was very aggressive cancer.

I also explains why they thought it wasn't 'that' aggressive and couldn't have made it to the sentinel node yet as the cancer size hadn't grown in weeks. Well the surgery with pathology told them otherwise and now we are going to chase it down with an auxiliary clearance.

Great news for some with only DCIS though, although I have a friend who had it and although many years between treatments, did eventually end up with the mastectomy and chemo. She is still relatively young since the natural death rate has risen in our society nowadays. The goal posts keep shifting in longetivity and cancers.