Hi everyone this is my first post on this forum. I am 54 years old and was diagnosed with DCIS in September after calcifications were found on my annual mammogram. I had WLE surgery 3 weeks ago with excellent results, clear margins and only a tiny amount of DCIS in one duct (most of it had been removed during the vacuum biopsy). Receptors are ER8 and PR8 and my van Nuys score is 6. I do have family history of breast cancer but it is not thought to be BRAC1 or 2. As I am considered very low risk of recurrence radiotherapy is not being advised but I can choose to have 5 sessions of full breast radiotherapy if I want to. I forgot to ask the consultant whether this would mean that I can’t have radiotherapy on that side again in the future if I do have a recurrence but will go back and ask that this week. I am also planning on trying letrozole.
Has anyone had to make the decision whether they have radiotherapy or not? I’m not sure what I should do.
