What do you think? please - Cells after biopsy were high grade with necrosis

	Asked by Unregistered on Wed 19, Mar 2008 08:34am :
	Hi, I had 5mm dcis - had a lumpectomy and there was 1mm found close to the edge of the margins. The doctor thought maybe more had invaded, so wanted to do another lumpectomy. I said No - a mastectomy - he did this and took the lymph nodes too. He told me that there was no more invasion, the multi focal was negative, the nodes were negative. He put me on Tamoxifen for five years and said that I should live forever. Apparently the cells after biopsy were High Grade with Necrosis. Do you agree with what he has said and with the cells having been High Grade does that make a difference? I see my oncologist tomorrow. I am 48 premenapausal, had 4 children late in life, am Hormone Positive and Her Negative. My mother died of breast cancer with secondaries. What do you think about my situation, is it possible that I am cured??
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