Mom has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer

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9. If it is stage 0 which is relatively common in older women,

there is little treatment needed at your mom's age beyond a lumpectomy.
Research ductal carcinoma situ or what is called stage 0. Many doctors
do not even consider DCIS cancer rather a pre-cancer that is full contained
in the milk duct.

There is ongoing research in how aggressively this form of pathology needs
to treated. In women over 67, those are not treated are as likely to be alive
10 years later as without cancer even without treatment.

The best thing you and your mom can do while waiting for an oncologist visit
is to educate yourselves on all the aspects of different presentations of cancer
or pre-cancers of the breast. https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20110316