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A member asked:
Why is it that some women have to have mastectomy for dcis if it's a non invasive cancer?
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You are right: Ordinarily, mastectomy is not necessary for precisely the reasons you have mentioned. So the standard treatment is excision of the dcis followed by radiotherapy to the affected breast. The only exception may be, if there are multiple dcis lesions in one breast....So unless you have this type of dcis, you do not need a mastectomy.
Answered 1/28/2014
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