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Active surveillance in DCIS is finally here. I say finally because “deintensifying treatment” has come to many other forms of cancer including prostate cancer. Years ago.
When I first wrote about DCIS, dyintensifying treatment was for the patient to have a lumpectomy and nothing more. And a lumpectomy only, is still a valid therapy plan for the newly diagnosed DCIS patient. But another possible therapy plan, according to the article linked below, is active surveillance in DCIS.
Let me be fully transparent. Active surveillance or watch and wait is for DCIS, not breast cancer. While not all oncologists agree, I don’t consider DCIS to be cancer.
“Watch and wait” is somewhat of a misnomer in my experience. While the patient may want to wait before undergoing any conventional therapies, they should “pre-habilitate” with evidence-based non-conventional therapies including:
According to research, prehabilitation before any/all cancer therapies will enhance your response to therapy if you ever do choose to treat your NHL. Prehabiitation is tailor-made for watch and wait in DCIS.
I was diagnosed with a pre-cancer stage of cancer. My cancer, multiple myeloma- a blood cancer. My point is that my oncologist told me that there was nothing that I could do. I now know that my onc. was wrong.
While I probably would have progressed to full myeloma, I would have responded to therapy better when I underwent induction therapy and may have avoided many of the side effects that I now live with.
Have you been diagnosed with DCIS? If you would like to learn more about taking a watch and wait therapy plan, email me at David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com