LCIS and Aty. Hyperplasia

cf317, so sorry to hear you are going through this stressful situation.

The whole is it/isn't it cancer with LCIS has led to calls for getting rid of the term _{LCIS altogether and just calling it all ALH, because it leads to so much confusion and distress. I went through that myself.}

_{My surgeon excised mine because he had to go in after some DCIS anyway and because it presented in a weird way, as a lump. Some others will chime in here, but he personally was adamant that he considered surgery for LCIS to be overtreatment. FWIW he is a specialist in breast oncology at a big teaching hospital.}

_{I have two questions:}

_{1. What time frame did they offer for follow-up scans? Often it's 3 or 6 months—it isn't going to go anywhere in that time, and you can get a better idea of what you're dealing with.}

_{2. How did they find it? LCIS is hard to detect on scans, as I understand it.}

_{As I said, mine was excised just sort of incidentally. Before I learned that it would be removed, I was in your shoes. I personally came to the conclusion that I was going to take a deep breath and trust them on the "never becomes invasive".}

_{Whatever you decide, the bright side is that you may qualify for more frequent follow-up in the future.}