← Return to long distance support, relocation before/during treatment

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@mattd008

Welcome to Mayo Connect. I understand your concern about your sister. She is in the early stage of diagnosis and treatment. I assume she had a biopsy in order to provide the stage 1 triple negative diagnosis. Once all the tests are done, her care team will come up with a treatment plan. Once she knows that, she can discuss with her team when and where she will get treatment. Everyone's experience with treatment is different. Depending on treatment plan, she may be done with treatment within a year with just follow up medications and rechecks.

She may be more comfortable getting treatment close to home. The stress of moving and relocating while being treated for cancer may be overwhelming.

Sometimes it is hard to be supportive from a distance, but it is easy to keep in touch and give her encouragement.

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Perhaps your sister would appreciate some help for a short period after surgery, family members on the west coast could travel east to provide that short term assistance. In that way she could stay where she is familiar and have her family near if needed

@roch you are correct. Biopsy provided the correct diagnosis and her MRI just happened. Based on what they learn her treatment plan should be created and we will figure out how to support her decisions on how/where/when to proceed.
Thanks for your message. This all helps.