A group of specialists had a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting on the 17th to discuss my staging test results.My cancer is very small, but they couldn't agree on whether it was Stage 1 or 2 (there are 4 stages of development. Stage 4 is bad).
Stage 1 would only require surgery. Stage 2 would involve 2 rounds of Chemotherapy and then surgery. This was the first time that chemotherapy had been mentioned. Bad news.
They cannot categorically prove that my Tumor is Stage 2, so the decision of which treatment path to follow is ultimately mine to make. Thanks guys.
At early Stage 2 development, there is a 15% chance of cancer cells having spread to the lymph nodes nearby. In early cancer the Chemo has a high probability of dealing with these cells and maybe shrinking the tumor‘s size to make it more easily removable. So chemo has a good chance of helping.
I had till Friday 24th (the day of the next MDT meeting) to decide.
In case I decided to go for chemotherapy, they had already booked me an appt to see an Oncologist on Monday 27th. to start the process.
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