Starting Chemo tomorrow Feb. 2014

AKJ

I'm starting chemo tomorrow with the TC protocol.  I have stage IIB breast cancer hormone positive, her2neu negative.  The tumor was 4.5 cm. and they removed 17 lymph nodes, 3 were positive. I had a single mastectomy a month ago.  My oncologist gave me options of 2 regimens; Dose dense AC and Taxol or the TC every 3 weeks for 4 cycles.  I didn't want to do the AC because it sounded horrible. I chose the TC and he seemed ok with that.  I went for a second opinion on Monday with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and the oncologist I talked to said that she would have recommended the AC protocol but that the TC would probably be ok.  However, she suggested that they extend the TC to six cycles for a better outcome.  So I'm still starting the TC tomorrow and will talk to my own oncologist about extending it for 6 cycles.  Any thoughts on that?  Does anyone have any information about the benefits of this?  I'm apparently on the border of deciding if AC or TC would be better.  She said that AC is better for 4 lymph nodes positive and I only had 3.  But my tumor was big.