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Take heart, you have every reason to be hopeful
Cathy take heart. You are one of the lucky ones in the sense that you responded to a treatment before. There is no reason to believe you will not respond again. It's a rollercoaster for sure, but don't for a minute believe that this is the beginning of the end. Too many other people have proven that you can pull out of something like this, as long as you can respond to a treatment.
As for the needle biopsy, personally I don't believe they are helpful, because in my case I've got tons of lymph nodes with cancer and I know they are cancerous because of the way they act. The docs want the biopsy "to be sure" but they are superfluous in my view. The assays that supposedly help tell whether your particular pathology will respond to any given chemo are very flawed and so don't offer you much assistance.
By all means get a second opinion or a third or a fifth (I always do) and tell yourself you are going to get on top of this cancer!!!!!
T
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