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Discovery and diagnosis :
What is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)?
Routine mammograms: the UK Breast Screening Programme
Diagnostic mammograms
Referral to an assessment clinic
Diagnostic tests: mammogram
Diagnostic tests: ultrasound scan
Diagnostic tests: biopsy
Waiting for results
Feelings about the diagnosis
Telling other people

Treatments & their impacts :
Feelings about having a wide local excision
Wide local excision: the operation
Wide local excision: recovery
Wide local excision: pathology results
Feelings about having a mastectomy
Mastectomy: the operation
Mastectomy: physical and emotional recovery
Mastectomy: pathology results
Breast reconstruction using an implant
Breast reconstruction using an LD flap
Breast reconstruction using a DIEP flap
Nipple reconstruction
Choosing not to have breast reconstruction
Prostheses
Body image
Radiotherapy
Chemotherapy
Hormone therapy

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Information
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Support from other women with DCIS or breast cancer

Effects on daily life :
How it effects families
Views on breast screening
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Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS)

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Agnes had a wide local excision, after which some invasive cancer was also found. She will be having radiotherapy and taking tamoxifen.

Cancer >> Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) >> Age at diagnosis: 50-54 >> Patricia - Interview 7 >> Patricia was in tears just before surgery because she didn’t want a mastectomy. The operation went well, though, and she was playing sports again shor

Patricia was diagnosed with DCIS in 2007, aged 53. She had a mastectomy and LD flap reconstruction six months later. She will also be taking hormone therapy.

Cancer >> Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) >> Age at diagnosis: under 50 >> Jacqui - Interview 31 >> Jacqui was very happy with the care she got from her surgeon, but felt the anaesthetist could have been more sensitive.

Jacqui was diagnosed with DCIS in 1995 after having a mammogram that was part of a clinical trial. She had a mastectomy and, two weeks later, a reconstruction using an implant.

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