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Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 20 10:00am | Replies (345)Comment receiving replies
Good for you for looking toward the second opinion. Another benefit of being at the cancer center for the second opinion is that you will have oncology doctors helping you to understand everything better. There is so much information, some good some not so good on the internet, definitely better to get all the information you can from your own doctors, especially since there are soooooooo many variables to breast cancer.
I am glad you came here for support. There are many of us who have been through varying stages of breast cancer to lean on. In December I will be an 18 year survivor.
Do you have friends and family to physically lean on when you need it? Like someone who can go with you to appointments and help you ask questions, and get all the answers?
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All is well for now. I went to see another doctor yesterday for a second opinion. He said he and his team need time to go over all the labs and get the rest of that MRI report from Christ Hospital. I hope he has better luck than I did! He thinks I’ll need more tests but his office will let me know asap. Also his office is closed next week so I won’t see him for awhile. I’m glad for the rest but not the waiting…😱
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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I don’t have any family to lean on but my friend and neighbor has been a tremendous support. However she is battling her own health difficulties and I don’t know when she’d be well enough to accompany me. We’ll have to see. I was able to get through to one of the recommended doctors at the center last night who clarified some confusion. He said the enhancement on the MRI film was not me moving (a tiny bit) during the breast MRI. He said the radiologist will mark the film with a symbol indicating movement. He said images caused by movement are different than “enhancement”. The center doctor said that the enhancement area probably needed to be biopsied. That would be biopsy #3 for me. I texted my own doctor back with this info. The center wants me to call back on Monday for an appointment next week and to arrange for the transfer of results. Then the center doctor said his whole office is closed not only for Labor Day weekend but for the whole week ! Aahhh!