Hi Oaktree

So sorry you're going through this. It's just over a year since I was diagnosed. I had a wide local incision (lumpectomy) on 3rd January lat year followed by 15 sessions of radiotherapy over February/March. I had no lump but it was picked up on a mammogram and I was recalled for biopsies and further tests

I was told that DCIS is totally contained in the milk duct, is non invasive, not life threatening and totally treatable. I never lost sight of these facts throughout my treatment. There is a 98% survival rate after 10 years

My surgeon told me that after treatment I would be cured and they don't say that easily with cancer. I totally trusted my medical team at all times.

After my op I considered the cancer gone and the radiotherapy as my insurance that everything had been zapped.

I'm now on a patient led follow up programme. They don't contact me but if I have the slightest worry then they are only on the end of the phone. I also have the reassurance of annual mammograms for the next 5 years.

I kept a diary at the time. Just jotted down my feelings now and again. I came across it the other week and was surprised at just how much of it is now a distant memory.

Last July I ran the Race for Life just a couple of weeks short of my 70th birthday.

Do you know your treatment plan yet?

Xxx

Xxx