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Taking control of your diagnosis
Recently I was diagnosed with BC along with all the other lovely women on this forum and I guess felt the same shock and horror as every one else too! Four months on and following a lumpectomy which ...
Hi Sam,
I am kinda agreeing with you about the amount of treatment they throw at it. I was diagnosed in march last year and had a lumpectomy, radiation, and am now on tamoxifen. I was lucky that it hadn't spread. My last 3 oncology appointments have basically consisted of me waiting, then going in and the registrar asks "do you have any problems". I say "no", she goes to get the oncologist. Then the oncologist comes in and says "do you have any problems" and I say "no" (and we all sit around awkwardly), and they say "see you next year". In total I am in there less than 5 mins (including the wait time while she gets the oncologist). It seems like such a waste of everyones time, and it doesn't give me any faith in the oncologist at all. They haven't done ANY tests since the operation other than the mammogram and ultrasound.
At least the breast gp & radiation oncologist take a look at me!
I am kinda agreeing with you about the amount of treatment they throw at it. I was diagnosed in march last year and had a lumpectomy, radiation, and am now on tamoxifen. I was lucky that it hadn't spread. My last 3 oncology appointments have basically consisted of me waiting, then going in and the registrar asks "do you have any problems". I say "no", she goes to get the oncologist. Then the oncologist comes in and says "do you have any problems" and I say "no" (and we all sit around awkwardly), and they say "see you next year". In total I am in there less than 5 mins (including the wait time while she gets the oncologist). It seems like such a waste of everyones time, and it doesn't give me any faith in the oncologist at all. They haven't done ANY tests since the operation other than the mammogram and ultrasound.
At least the breast gp & radiation oncologist take a look at me!