New diagnosis invasive ductal 26mm with calcification 6cm

Hi

you've come to the right place for support!  Lots of ladies on here who have been through, and going through the same things.  

I can't help with calcification  my tumour was 5cm and I had chemo first.

It is hard holding it together for the family - but we all do it.  This site is a place you can share how you feel safely.  

I am sure someone will come along who has experienced something similar.  But in the meantime welcome.  We will all help all we can.

Take care

Thank you Ann

xxx

Hi Tina,

Well done for joining - I've found this site really helpful since my diagnosis on March 14th.

It sounds your diagnosis is a bit similar to mine.

On the initial mammogram there were calcifications  and a suspicious area in the same breast.

I had biopsies and following  those another biopsy using a mammogram as the results were indefinite.

It turned out to be the calcifications were precancerous - I think they can tell from the formation of cells how close they are to turning into the real thing. The other area was HER2 ER+.

I had a mastectomy  on April 8th and the surgeon told me the mass was 10cm! so good job they caught it!

The other tumour was small 18mm but grade 3 so I am having chemo soon.

Like you I have daughters in their 30s. They are being really supportive.

It is really scary especially at first when there are so many unknowns and you think the worst will happen.

It's also hard to stay positive and I know its really cliched but you do have to take one day at time.

Hope you have a good outcome and get a treatment plan soon.

All the best,

Janet

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Thank you Janet,

thats really helpful

Tina x x 

Hi

I had something similar. Mine was picked up at a routine mammogram. I had a large (90mm) area identified as DCIS and they identified what they thought was an 11/12mm invasive grade 3 tumour. Due to the large area of DCIS a mastectomy was recommended which I had in November 2018. The pathology following the mastectomy showed a 60mm invasive grade 3 tumour. 

I had asked the question before surgery whether the surgeon could just remove the areas of concern but he wasn't sure that he could so we agreed to go ahead with a mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with implant. Given my post-surgery pathology I am so glad that we did given the much larger area identified as invasive tumour.

I was very worried about having a mastectomy prior to surgery but I would say it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be. My new boob is a good shape and size and in clothes no one would know that it is an implant.

I am now further down the road- (post chemotherapy and in the middle of radiotherapy) and would say its okay to fall apart and to allow yourself to grieve for your life before this horrible diagnosis, but you will get through it. 

Gentle hugs

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Thank you xx