We went to the oncologist yesterday and he wants my husband to do 6 weeks of chemo and radiation, with chemo one day a week for 2 1/2 hours each time and radiation 5 days. The goal is to shrink the tumor as much as possible and hopefully kill any cancer that could be floating around (one local lymph node looks not so great). I don’t know if this will change after the surgeon does the laparoscopic exploration when he puts in the chemo port and feeding line. The oncologist seemed surprised that he was doing the lap. exploration, for some reason, and said he needed to get with him. I don’t know what that’s all about. The surgeon told us he wants to be absolutely sure what he’s dealing with when he does the major surgery. I was a little bit unnerved by the discrepancy between them. I’m sick with worry about what these treatments will be like for my husband and am praying they do what they are supposed to do. He said the chemo was a lower dose option. I was looking into Moffitt this morning but it’s pretty far from us and I feel like we’re on a path now, and I’m probably overreacting. I’ve read that Moffitt and Advent Health interact quite a bit as far as updated treatment methods which could be good (my hub is going to Advent for the surgery and to Florida Cancer Specialists for the oncologist). The chemo/radiation route seems normal to me but I don’t know why the two doctors haven’t collaborated yet. Cancer sucks.