Previous stage 1A breast cancer survivor here. Had IDC in my left breast, with associated DCIS. Main tumor was 20mm, grade 1 score 4, HR/PR+, HER2 negative, Ki-67 6%, Oncotype score 14. Chemo benefit <1%. Chance of recurrence in 10 years 4%.
Several month ago, unilateral mastectomy on the left breast was done along with sentinel node removal. Hormonal therapy was started. Lymph node involvement was then ruled out as negative, although they found ITCs. According to them, ITC doesn’t change the staging or lymph node involvement at all, because there’s strong scientific evidence proving that it doesn’t change recurrence rate even a little bit. Quite interesting and gave me a panic attack the first time I saw it.
The cancer was found during a Mammogram and following biopsy. Although my left breast always had weird masses over the times I’ve had annual mammograms done, my right breast was always fine! But very recently a mammogram has been done with my remaining right breast and they’ve found new Calcifications! Thankfully though, nothing about any masses, and my bone scan came back clean. Still this came as a partial shock to me because I thought everything was fine, although I’ve had calcifications in this breast come back as benign before!
The notes in the diagnostic are “Most of the calcifications appear benign; however, there is a small cluster of indeterminate amorphous calcifications located more toward the center and upper part of the area of concern. This cluster should be sampled with a stereotactic core biopsy for further evaluation.”
What? Am I going to be fine?? They also said this breast was almost entirely fatty and not dense, which means if there was a cancer mass there, it would be ever so more likely that the mammogram would pick it up!!! What is the chance this is a benign calcification, or am I going to have go through cancer all over again?? If it is cancer will it be very early stage or something worse??? I’ve read online this is usually a sign of DCIS if malignant.
Going to figure out soon, biopsy tomorrow 
but would like reassurance before I lose it. Thanks for reading!
I hate this
