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Metastatic Breast Cancer treatment options
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 22, 2023 | Replies (73)Comment receiving replies
Ah geez! This is just a really hard way to find out you have inflammatory breast cancer. This is a difficult cancer because it often gets diagnosed later than you would hope. Was this your wife’s first diagnosis or is this a recurrence? Are you being seen at a large clinic or cancer center? Are you going to try and get a 2nd or 3rd consult?
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We have 2 sources we are using, the Duke University doctor and the very large Hospital system cancer center group an hour away from us..
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This was the first diagnosis after an annual mammogram then biopsy with scans. The hospital system she’s using is part of a large North Carolina hospital group which is very credible. The doctors who found this were Breast center surgeons who then referred her to the hospital cancer center. So the surgeon is part of Duke University system and the Hospital and the oncologist is part of the hospital who works in conjunction with the surgeon from Duke. It just really seems with the surgeon said there’s no use for surgery, or radiation and the oncologist saying we will stop chemo whenever you decide. Plus having the oncologist saying it was bad very bad, and the surgeon saying it was aggressive cancer and fast growing. We are feeling like this is the end and there’s no hope.