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Thank you so much. I have just sent them an email. It is so difficult to get my oncologist to give me information. I am trying to get a 2nd consult with another cancer group. I have only one kidney, that is also stage 3 CKD and taking the recptor blockers and the radiation is a concern, as well the distance I have to travel because I live so rural to any major cities.
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Hoping you can get involved in this trial. There are non breast cancer related medical exclusions. Best of luck to you.
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I definitely would get another doctor’s opinion- but I do hesitate when the second opinion doctor ask me what did my oncology say in the discussion of my cancer & treatment options. Also. Some second opinion doctors request your medical documents of your cancer so that they can review it. I don’t like when second opinion doctors to this because I am paying them for their honest second opinions and not for them to take a short cut and review what the oncologist has told me and get paid for a full blown second opinion. I want the second opinion doctor to review my biopsy report and any other scans & lab reports and treat me as a consult or as a potential new patient. Now there are some groups who do make it clear that your visit is only as second opinion.
Sorry that you have to travel so far for any treatment options and that you don’t have any friends or family members living in any near large cities.
You have to protect your kidney so any medical step you take make sure that your nephrologist is in the loop I truly do being CKD stage 3B. I hope that I didn’t muddy
the waters in this long post - sorry.