Five things you didn't know about breast cancer, stage 0

Five things you didn’t know about Breast Cancer, Stage 0

1. That it exists.

2. That the treatment is the same as if it were a Stage 1, which means radiation, and  sometimes chemotherapy.

3. Sometimes a mastectomy needs to be performed.

4. A routine mammogram can detect it.

5. It’s called DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ of the Breast)

Read about my personal journey here in the Fall of 2014 to discover more.

Five things you didn't know about breast cancer, stage 0

The medical side of DCIS can be read about here.