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Are side affects of chemo and radiation that bad?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 3, 2023 | Replies (24)

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Can you give me someone of a breakdown of what will happen with my first time visit there this Monday? I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting to see a surgeon to get this cancer cut out of me and with the February 2 ultrasound being totally incorrect calling it a cyst when it was really a solid mass and then two weeks later in February the wonderful supposed high definition 3-D mammogram totally missed that so-called cyst and said everything was fine. What will happen Monday I hope they run some test or something to get the ball rolling cause if I have to wait anymore I might as well plan my funeral. I mean I’m driving two hours on Monday to go to Moffitt for the first time visit and I sure hope they have some test or x-rays are imaging planned that we can get things moving along and not waste anymore time.

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I went to Moffitt for a second opinion after being diagnosed with DCIS grade 3, 4mm tumor. After my biopsy with my first dr. a mri was done that said there was no tumor in either breast. When I questioned my surgeon, she said, mri’s have a lot of false negatives and cannot be relied on and I needed to have surgery. That’s when I went to Moffitt. I talked to someone there doing their fellowship for about 45 minutes. She basically read me the results from my previous exams. No additional xrays or testing were done. I then met with a Moffitt surgeon and 2 interns for 10 minutes. I explained to her that I wanted to do a wait and see approach due to the mri results. She said that the she was too busy to be expected to “waste her time” on someone that didn’t want surgery. She did perform a clinical breast exam, and told me to call her when I was ready for surgery. I did eventually have a lumpectomy with my 1st surgeon, that found “unremarkable tissue” with 8mm clear margins. If cancer is ever found again, I will make the trip to Jacksonville to the Mayo clinic.