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Tumor Invasion to Pectoral Muscle?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 13, 2023 | Replies (19)

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I am really glad to hear you are able to do research, that paper you posted pretty much mirrors what I found in 2004 for any tumor anchored to the chest wall.
I am also really, really happy to hear you are getting a second opinion. My knee jerk reaction, after losing a few family members to cancer was to say no to everything too. Boy am I glad for that surgeon and his encouragement. I know you said things move pretty quickly, do you have any idea when you will get a second opinion?

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Going Wednesday night, seeing if that doctor can get me into proton therapy (which is generally not used for breast cancer here and not all that many machines compared to the US). Or see what he has to say at all. Honestly, to get an entire half-hour consult (will pay for longer if it takes longer) is a rarity here, I literally have not spoken to any doctor here about any treatment (or biopsy results, or test results) for more than 5 minutes, if even that much. I did ask right after surgery, about what would happen and he indicated that it was all up to oncology at that point. The system works with amazing efficiency but the trade-off is that there is not a lot of discussion (and this with anyone, it's not just because of English because I always brought translators and most of the discussion was in Chinese for the technical parts about the biopsy and pathology and such).