It's easy to feel flummoxed or overwhelmed with this kind of news at first. While you gather more information, from your doctor(s), here and other online venues, including medical journals, etc., can you also get names of oncologist specialists for this cancer in your area and get another opinion?

The opinions might fully agree, which can be very reassuring, and each chance to ask more questions about diagnosis and treatment plan will help you understand the choices and the basis for the treatment recommendations. Keeping a list of everything that you don't understand, and then getting the answers and understanding, can help a great deal to focus on moving forward in such an unfamiliar situation. I saw my surgeon twice, before having (successful) surgery, because I was too much in shock the first time to even think of any questions. I had plenty of questions by the second visit a week later and that made a lot of difference to my level of confidence about the surgeon's approach.