Today we met our medical oncologist, Dr. Stone. He says we can probably avoid chemo if we can get clear margins and we don't see any vascular involvement. We had a large tumor but it was low grade and had no nodes involved. He wants to run an Oncotype DX test to see if our tumor is likely to spread. It's $3,500.00 but that's alot cheaper than chemo.
We also run a BRCA1 and BRCA2 test (see more here) and that's another $3,500.00 It will tell if I have a certain genetic defect that opens me up to many types of cancer. It's awful if it's positive so we're crossing our fingers.
Monday, December 4, 2006
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