I know many of you are knowledgable about much more than breast cancer, so I am hoping you may be able to give me some advice or guidance.
My step sister has just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She is somewhat limited and my dad and step mother are handling most of her care. They are asking for my advice; however, they are in another state and I'm not sure I get all the correct information from them. I do have some concerns about where she is getting treatment. I learned today that her port was accessed three weeks ago and the needle/tube was left in until today when she went for first treatment! Her onc told her they must have thought she was going to get treatment three weeks ago and left it in by mistake!
My father told me that she is Stage III, with only two lymph nodes removed, one of which showed positive. One spot on her colon, but not penetrating. Would it be optimal to only remove two nodes? Do they do sentinal node testing for Ovarian cancer? If one of two was positive, isn't there a possibilty that there may be more positive nodes? Her chemo is carboplatin and taxol, but I'm not clear on how many treatments she will be getting.
I would appreciate any advice or suggestions on sites to research.
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