I plan on staying with my oncologist. There is something different
in the way he examines me - he goes into a dazed-like trance and
when he's finished, I feel like my body has been kneaded like bread
dough. I would never get this kind of exam from my family doc and
if she did find something suspicious then I would have to go back
to the onc anyway.
My family doctor also isn't able to answer all of my questions.
There's also the question of new drugs coming out - like Becky getting Herceptin after she finished her chemo. We need to be connected to our oncologists, I think.
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PinkGirl
Dx Aug/05 at age 51
2cm. Stage 2A, Grade 3
ER+/PR-
Her2 +++
Sept 7/05 Mastectomy
4 FAC, 4 Taxol, no radiation
1 year of Herceptin
Tamoxifen for approx. 4 months,
Arimidex for 5 years
Prophylactic mastectomy June 22/09
" I yam what I yam." - Popeye
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