Can you have 2 cancers in same breast?

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  • filimu
    filimu Member Posts: 74
    #22
    cahjah75 said:

    Yes, JoJo we're
    all oddballs. lol My surgeon explained to me why breast MRI and pathology reports were different. I had Invasive Lobular Carcinoma in right breast (6.1cm) but after pathology it was only 3.4cm and the rest was LCIS. I also had LCIS in left breast just waiting it's turn. In the end it's all the same - BC.
    Char

    Just remember ladies....
    Every one of us is wonderfully perfectly, abnormal in her own way... The true definition of NORMAL is just a setting on a clothes dryer. :)
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
    #23
    MomMichelle said:

    I too was first diagnosed
    I too was first diagnosed with DCIS but after the mastectomy, they found a very small area (4mm) of IDC. I think it is not uncommmon. Obviously when first diagnosed as DCIS, you hope for there to be nothing else found. Often the doctors, if they know ahead of time, will treat your cancer looking the more critical one. If they had not found that 4mm invasion, I would not be looking at chemo starting this week.

    I had ductal and invasive
    I had ductal and invasive breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and radiation treatments, no chemo.


    Hugs, Leeza
  • New Flower
    New Flower Member Posts: 4,294 Member
    #24
    filimu said:

    Just remember ladies....
    Every one of us is wonderfully perfectly, abnormal in her own way... The true definition of NORMAL is just a setting on a clothes dryer. :)

    I had 3
    all. Nothing is unusual in this world.
  • lillith
    lillith Member Posts: 29
    #25
    carkris said:

    the way they have explained
    the way they have explained it is true, the DCIS may have become an invasive cancer at some point they just dont know when. I had IDC 8mm -1cm my first time, and had to have a mastectomy because they could not get margins. turns out I had scant but scattered DCIS and I still had a local recurrence. 16 years later this one is lobular, I think they were pretty suprised. It did not show up on mammo, lobulars are sneaky and dont form in lump like patterns so dont show up as well. MRI 's pick them up better. I was angry because I didnt know this and would have asked for one. I think its best mammo every year and MRI everyear, so you have something every six months.

    every 6 months
    that is a really good idea to have an MRI or a mammo every 6 months. My 2nd tumor never showed at all on mammogram or on sonogram. It wasn't seen until the pre-op MRI with contrast. I'll ask my oncologist about it.

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