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Dear Chelee--

It sounds as though you do not have a lot of confidence in your medical team-- your Doctors have spent years and years in school, plus passed rigorous medical boards in order to take patients such as yourself in their care. While they may not be giving you the answers that you like, they are not giving up on you. I don't think that they are lying to you when they tell you that your ovarian cysts are not an urgent issue.

I too had three fibroids (two the size of grapefruits-- yikes!), plus ovarian cysts all during treatment-- and I was Stage IIIC-- so allegedly a worse prognosis than you. But I have never felt like the doctors were giving up on me-- they were focused on the biggest threat to my health-- breast cancer-- and doing the best that they could to give me the best treatment they knew-- which did not have room for interruptions.

Chelee, the odds are on your side! I certainly understand how difficult it can be to digest one's crappola pathology report. There are no promises, but a lot of hope. Living with the uncertainty is one of the most difficult parts of this disease.

I hope you can find a way to build a trusting relationship with your medical team-- either by switching hospitals, or having a frank conversation with your Onc. It hasn't been easy for me to trust these doctors-- I supposedly go to one of the best hospitals in the world for cancer treatment, and I still scour the internet to be sure they're not missing anything. But the more I learn, the more I realize that I'm totally out of my depth.

I hope you can find some peace with your Oncologist and treatment plan.

Good luck,
Jen