So sorry to hear that @maggie14 we so have to be our own advocate in this shit fest of a disease. So often we are questioned or advised by the powers that be of what might be in our best interest. I have total faith in my oncologist but for someone whose mother picked up mets in the brain and lung from BC i have very definite concerns about future checkups. I just don't feel that an ultrasound and mammogram for my one boob is going to cut the mustard. Will have to have that discussion with Onc and GP I guess.
I was like you @kezmusc I was advised that treatment would lessen the chance of recurrence. Sometimes the Doctors are put between a rock and a hard place. My sister when she was advised she had stage 4 inoperable double hit non hodgkins got advised, " I'm thinking that possibly your cancer is not conducive to living " Took her a while for that to sink in and then WTF !! ( luckily she's still out there walking 5 km a day and enjoying life and working ) albeit been to hell and back.
