Lobular Carcinoma in Situ (LCIS) is a cancer that lives within the milk glands of the breast, growing unnoticed, undetectable. Mammograms do not detect it; physical examination reveals nothing. Even after it is discovered, usually during a test for other problems, physicians tell their patients to ignore it - it's a safe cancer.Recent research indicates a strong possibility that all breast cancer begins as a cancer of the milk glands. The medical profession is beginning to realize that LCIS (and its closely related cousin, ...
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Lobular Carcinoma in Situ (LCIS) is a cancer that lives within the milk glands of the breast, growing unnoticed, undetectable. Mammograms do not detect it; physical examination reveals nothing. Even after it is discovered, usually during a test for other problems, physicians tell their patients to ignore it - it's a safe cancer.Recent research indicates a strong possibility that all breast cancer begins as a cancer of the milk glands. The medical profession is beginning to realize that LCIS (and its closely related cousin, Ductal Carcinoma in Situ, or DCIS) does indeed need to be regarded with more concern than in the past, and to lake stronger measures to treat or eliminate it.Women of the Amazon tribes would cut off a breast to improve the accuracy of throwing a spear or shooting an arrow, to ensure their survival. Davies elected to have a double mastectomy to ensure hers.Like most women, Kim Davies wanted to believe that she was safe. But after she researched LCIS, she realized that this cancer is safe only when it remains inside the walls of the milk glands. When it breaks through to the rest of the breast, it becomes very active and is the most aggressive of breast cancers. After her surgery, Davies discovered that her safe cancer had broken through into the surrounding brcast tissue and had begun to spread aggressively. Luckily Davies' doctor recognized the danger and acted quickly.Current research indicates that risk factor profiles are not accurate. Every woman is at risk for developing LCIS, regardless of family history, diet, personal health, or other risk factors.This book is about hope, about surviving, about making a tough choice. It's about doing whathas to be done to ensure your survival. Although research about LCIS is scant, Davies presents the facts you need to make the decision to save your own life.By talking about her life and her battle with LCIS, Davies hopes to encourage other women to face breast cancer head on. She is able to discuss LCIS in perspective with other issues in life: Davies faced LCIS shortly after her daughter was killed in a car crash on her 18th birthday.She believes having breast cancer can be a positive experience. Her words of hope and her joy in living will encourage many women to face LCIS and other breast cancers aggressively, like Amazon women.
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