Last Wednesday I had a core needle biopsy done. They removed 12 samples and I still have a lot of calcifications intact. I was told a marker was put in to pin point where exactly the mass is.

I was just today been diagnosed with DCIS. Good news is she said its pre-invasive cancer. This means it’s confined to the duct and hasn’t spread outside of the duct.

I have an appointment to talk with a surgeon next week, but she says I will probably have a lumpectomy followed by radiation. And because of my increased risk I might have to take Tamoxifen. My mom had breast cancer and my grandmom also had it. Even though I went through these treatments with my mom, I'm confused about my own diagnosis. My mom's was much more aggressive--chemo, radiation and eventually mastectomy with all the side effects.

I am nervous about the invasive part but I trust that the lumpectomy and radiation will do the trick as long as I have clean margins. Then it’s more difficult but I didn’t want her to explain that yet. I’ll be having sentinel node surgery too whatever the heck that is. She told me they’ll do a total lymph node removal if they test positive.

I don’t even know what I’m writing because all these terms mean absolutely nothing to me until I meet with the surgeon next week but I was trying to write as much as I could. I’m just a wreck right now and have to do something to distract myself.