[PinkGirl]

Thank you all for your thoughtful replies. I would have had to leave
the province, country or maybe the continent to get a second opinion
that differed from the first one. I believe now that this would be
much more important if I were stage 4.

I didn't mean "name-dropping" like people were bragging. I was
thinking more of feeling confident if the information came from
a "big name" oncologist rather than your garden variety one when
the information was the same.

I read something somewhere about Dr. Slamon and how many
women want to meet with him and discuss how long they should
stay on Herceptin. Dr. Slamon said that no one knows and that it
was the bio-techs who chose the one year. So sometimes when I
read the posts about the big name cancer centres and big name
oncologists, I remember that there is so much about cancer that
is still a mystery and that even the "big guns" don't have all the
answers.