Oncotype DX results are good

Our Oncotype DX report came back today. We scored an 18, which means we have an 11% chance of having cancer elsewhere after 10 years. We're just barely in the "Low Risk" category. This is one of the more powerful pieces of good news we're likely to get.

Meet the oncologist

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.