LCIS

jean59 - this thread has what you need:  http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/131/topic/773727

LCIS is the following:



1. A marker for an increased chance of invasive lobular cancer, dcis, idc.

2. An in situ lobular cancer that will become invasive.

3. Abnormal cells that signal nothing and go nowhere and will never cause a problem.



If monitoring is chosen, rather than a mastectomy, you will be monitored every three months, because everybody concerned wants to catch the in situ lobular cancer that invades early, or the dcis or idc that the lcis marker promised.



If a woman is monitored over her lifetime, and never has the lcis that becomes invasive, or never has the lcis that suggested a dcis or idc is coming, she did not lose her breast and won the gamble. It may bear out in a decade or so that the current recommendations for monitoring are drastic and overkill because lcis is no biggie after all. That's not the case today.



For the woman more risk adverse woman, a PBLM makes sense and she should be able to opt out of the monitoring that is recommended and so necessary to catch invasive cancer early.



The monitoring is serious business for a serious problem. Mastectomy is a serious solution to a serious problem. The choices are difficult and your life is changed, however you chose, because lcis is a significant diagnoses.