Thank you @auntieoakley, I feel like I know you reading your comments this last year. I admire your common sense answers and your knowledge of our shared condition. My story is pretty simple my husband and I have been going to Mayo for over 20 years. He has had 3 cancers, bladder, right kidney and left kidney diagnosed and caught early and treated at Rochester. We go every year for our check ups and 2020 was my year to be diagnosed with cancer. I was diagnosed with Stage II, one node positive, ER and PR positive breast cancer. But it was during covid so the breast clinic was down three surgeons so no surgeries till Feb or March, this was December. I reached out to the U of MN and met and a surgeon who I was very impressed with. Basically Mayo was my second opinion. In one afternoon in late December I met with the surgeon and her team, the oncologist and hers and the radiologist and his team. They were all wonderful but no surgery appointments were available. Amazingly a appointment was found for early January. I picked Mayo over the U of MN mainly because they were going to work with my allergist to find antibiotics and other meds I could tolerate. Through out my cancer journey I have been blessed and feel I made the right choice. All three of my doctors have been pretty wonderful.

Thank you for this note. I do not know about University of Colorado but I will reach out to them. I wrote to my primary doctor for her professional opinion but she deferred to my oncologist. I will write her again to ask for a second opinion. You have been very helpful.