I didn’t mean you weren’t advocating for yourself. It just seems some oncologists will not do minimal testing and I don’t know why. I expressed localized pain to my oncologist quite often and she wouldn’t even order blood work. She suggested taking gabapentin, increasing magnesium and suggested taking Claritin but was so shocked she wouldn’t order a PET scan. I discovered a lump in my clavicle in November and turns out breast cancer has returned and it has metastasized. CT showed swollen lymph nodes on both sides.
I’ll be starting chemo the end of January.