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Hi,

well, I am one year post surgery(Lumpectomy), chemo (for an onc score of 27) and radiation.  Am on lupron and femara....feeling great---healed well, tolerated chemo and radiation well- worked fulltime have two young kids.

Had my follow up with my surgeon on friday--- everything looks good-had a clear mammogram, will have an MRI in a few months.  I finally was able to read my path report without too much emotion... when I talked to the surgeon about my path last december, I asked about the LCIS that they found when they were removing the lump.  She said that if they were going to name LCIS today, they would not call it carcinoma....

I brought it up again in our meeting this week--LCIS didn't show up in a mammo or an MRI last year when I was being tested--- she again said that it would not be labeled a carcinoma and she did not see that my risk was any higher than we already calculated it to be (about 9%) with oncotype, treatment, family history (none), etc.  

She also said that lcis can be in people for a long time and never turn into anything else---- I used to hear that about dcis too....

anyway, I think my approach is going to be surveillance--I have already had the invasive lump with clear nodes and margins.... but reading here has been helpful.  I hope you don't mind if I join your group.

I am going to talk about this with my onc in our next meeting.  I have nothing but the highest regard for the surgeon--she is a researcher as well as a great surgeon..... so we will see what the onc thinks.....