Path report not what I was hoping for

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  • TraciInLA
    TraciInLA Member Posts: 1,994 Member
    #22
    DianeBC said:

    So sorry.  Sending lots of

    So sorry.  Sending lots of positive thoughts and hugs!

    Interesting comments about ILC not seen on mammograms?

    The comments about ILC not being easily seen on mammograms are interesting to me, as that was not the case for me at all.

    I was diagnosed in 2009 with 3 IDC tumors in the right breast and 1 ILC tumorin the left breast.  Each of the tumors was only about 2 millimeters in diameter, and all (including the ILC tumor) were found on my first baseline mammogram (I had just turned 40).  

    I remember looking at my mammogram films myself months later (I had to hand carry them across the street to the radiation center), and seeing that ILC tumor clear as day on the films.

    I'm not a medical professional of any kind, but my own personal feeling is that locating breast tumors may be as much (or more) about where in the breast it's located, rather than ILC vs. IDC.

    Traci

  • Kristin N
    Kristin N Member Posts: 1,968 Member
    #23
    RozHopkins said:

    Hi - infiltrating lobular in

    Hi - infiltrating lobular in one side, mastectomy.  Breast reduction in good side found early lobular in the taken away material.  So second mastectomy a month later.  Lobular i feel best to go bilateral, your decision.  Tell us how everything goes.  Good luck.

    Wishing you good luck Carmen.

    Wishing you good luck Carmen.

  • Lynne P
    Lynne P Member Posts: 165
    #24
    TraciInLA said:

    Interesting comments about ILC not seen on mammograms?

    The comments about ILC not being easily seen on mammograms are interesting to me, as that was not the case for me at all.

    I was diagnosed in 2009 with 3 IDC tumors in the right breast and 1 ILC tumorin the left breast.  Each of the tumors was only about 2 millimeters in diameter, and all (including the ILC tumor) were found on my first baseline mammogram (I had just turned 40).  

    I remember looking at my mammogram films myself months later (I had to hand carry them across the street to the radiation center), and seeing that ILC tumor clear as day on the films.

    I'm not a medical professional of any kind, but my own personal feeling is that locating breast tumors may be as much (or more) about where in the breast it's located, rather than ILC vs. IDC.

    Traci

    That's interesting Traci

    That's interesting Traci about yours showing up on your mammogram.  You might be right that it just depends on where they are located in the breast.

     

  • DebbyM
    DebbyM Member Posts: 3,289 Member
    #25
    Lynn Smith said:

    I had a lumpectomy

    I had a lumpectomy and no chemo or radiation.It was DCIS non invasive.BUT last year my sister was dx with cancer in each breast.And 2 different types.One was IDC but the other I'm not sure. She had a double mascetomy and just a couple weeks ago had reconstruction.She's doing fine but told her doctor and nurse the size she has now is what she had in the 4th grade.She thought she would at least have a C cup. no comments from the  dcotor or nurse.

    I asked my oncologist about 2 different types of bc in each breast.She told me they see it maybe in 2-3 percent of their patients.That's a very low percentage 

    My sister's tumors were Stage 3 and Stage 2.

    Wishing you the best and please let us know what you decide.We're all thinking of you.I wish I could tell you what is best  but I just know what my sister did.But both breasts were involved and a double mascetomy.

    Lynn Smith

    I'm so sorry and am sending

    I'm so sorry and am sending you lots of big hugs!

    Debby

  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #26
    Thinking of you
     
    Denise

    Thinking of you

     

    Denise

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