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| 3/9/2010 | I had a mastectomy for DCIS and know that normally there is a less than 1% chance of recurrance locally.My oncologist thinks that I have a 3-5% chance because of extensive grade 3 comedo disease with necrosis and I am very very thin and young. Margins were 4mm and I am wondering if pushing for radiation would be worth it. also had ITC's in one SNL. Also, do you think that rubbing topical aspirin on skin a few days a week would be safe to do?Just thinking about the anti-inflammatory effects that we are seeing in the news with aspirin and BC recurrence. | ||
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| 3/9/2010 | no data to tell about aspirin in topical form. don't use anything though without your surgeon's blessings. if isolated tumor cells were seen in the sentinel node then somewhere among the dcis there was invasive disease. with mastectomy for stage 1 breast cancer (assuming that invasive component was small-- less than 20 mm-- and clearly it must have been since they apparently didn't find it by pathology on the mastectomy specimen) then risk of local recurrence to the chest area should only be 1-2%. L | ||
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