Today we're going to Greenwich to talk to a surgeon recommended by a friend of Blair's who's an OR nurse at the same hospital for a second opinion. On Monday we're seeing a doctor at Sloan Kettering that was recommended by my brother's MIL (who had BC).
After we get our second opinions, I'll probably schedule the lumpectomy with the doctor here in Bridgeport. If the margins and lymph nodes are clear, I'll have 7 weeks of radiation followed by hormone therapy for several years, but there will probably be no need for chemo (there's a test that will be done on the tumor after the surgery). If the margins aren't clear they'll have to go back in and take a larger area; and if the first lymph nodes they take are effected, they will take more lymph nodes - and I will need more aggressive therapy (ie chemo).
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