DCIS

[Lauriebell]

Is DCIS cancer or precancer?  The radiologist called it a cancer but the surgeon called it precancer.

[madgeOwens]

Definition From Mayo Clinic
In ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), abnormal cells multiply and form a growth within a milk duct of your breast. Although DCIS is an early form of breast cancer, it's noninvasive, meaning it hasn't spread out of the milk duct to invade other parts of the breast. Some experts consider DCIS to be a "preinvasive" condition. DCIS is the most common type of noninvasive breast cancer.

DCIS is usually found during mammogram screenings, but it can be difficult to detect. Because of increased screening with mammograms, the rate at which DCIS is diagnosed has increased dramatically in recent years. Fortunately, the condition isn't life-threatening, but it does require treatment. Unlike lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) — which really isn't a cancer at all but a marker for increased risk of developing invasive breast cancer — DCIS is more likely to develop into invasive breast cancer if left untreated.

[Lauriebell]

They never told me if mine is high or low grade.  But I'm having a lumpectomy on 9/17.

[madgeOwens]

I have heard it called very curable cancer and then I have heard it referred to as precancerous..........so I am at a loss to know what it really is considered, maybe one of the doctors will respond. Sure sounds like cancer to me just by the name.

[nannotnancy]

I have DCIS also--high grade, and  in one location.  I had 3 biopsies, and only one was bad.  I think it's a small area, but since it's high grade, major surgery is being talked about.  I've had mammos., MRI's, Ultrasound, and the biopsies over the past 6 weeks.  I'm meeting with the surgeon for his final "opinion" on Wednesday.  After that, I plan to get another opinion.  This DCIS is confusing--it's NON-INVASIVE--but apparently that can change.

[japdip]

DCIS = Ductal Carcinoma in Situ; the most common type of breast cancer but is confined to the ducts and is NON-Invasive.