Hello all.
I have recently been told that I have ER+ DCIS low-intermediate.
I have been given the choice of lumpectomy with radiotherapy and medication or a mascectomy. The issue I have with a lumpectomy is that I already have inplants and the radiotherapy will damage it, so I'd need a new inplant after the radiotherapy. The other issue is that there is a lot of this same disease in my family, mother had double mastectomy and chemo after the lumpectomy found the cancer had spread. My auntie also had the same but unfortunately died of it as did my nan. I've had a BRCA test but not yet had results back. We all think they will be negative as my mother and auntie were. My grandmother from father's side also had breast cancer and another auntie on my mother's side had bowel cancer.
I have a really low grade, some would say it was nothing. But I'm torn between just having a full mascectomy and reducing any further risk, based on other families history or trying the lumpectomy first. I really can't decide.
I have a real emotional attachment to my breasts too. The thought of one being different from the other really bothers me, like really bothers me. I'm leaning more on double mastectomy side just so that I'm in a safer position and have both breast reconstructed at the same time.
Could really do with some advice or other people experience of the same sort of thing.
Im 47 and very young at heart.
