This feels like a strange deja vu as I visited these forums a lot in 2022 when I was diagnosed with a 5mm high grade DCIS. And it gave me lots of hope and information. Within 6 weeks I went from mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy to wide local incision and finally to be discharged to come back for annual mammograms. It felt like a whirlwind however I’ve felt so grateful to have “got away so lightly”. No radiotherapy, no drugs to take, minimal scar and in the first year my mammogram was clear. 

However, this year my mammogram picked up something. I didn’t find out until the biopsy that it was either a new or growing calcification. I’ve now been booked an appointment at the breast surgery clinic and I can only assume that you wouldn’t waste a consultant’s time on a patient if there’s nothing suspicious. I’m pretty devastated as I hoped I’d put this behind me. All my past worries about it becoming invasive, having a mastectomy, radiotherapy, etc and all the knock on implications on our life have flooded back. I just can’t imagine being so fortunate to have minimal treatment twice and, if this is a recurrence of DCIS, the speed of recurrence feels worryingly fast. Trying to take solace in the fact I’m forties and otherwise fit. 

So I just wondered if anyone else has been in a similar position. 

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