How long did you wait to start treatment?

Eric9909

My mom had her surgery over a week ago now and we just met with her oncologist for the first time. She told us to wait 3 weeks for Oncotype and other recurrence predictor tests (she didn’t specify) to come back then we’d discuss treatment.

Is this normal? I don’t like the idea of waiting when there’s likely cancer cells in my mom’s body since she had 2 positive SLN. They’ve also said radiation is going to try to be avoided based of the type of reconstruction they did. That just leaves hormone therapy which to me doesn’t decrease recurrence rate enough to me. I wish she would’ve recommended us chemo from the start or at least not having to wait for results and another possible wait to start chemo. I’m very scared of it metastasizing.

moth

Eric, I answered on your other post. Best not to duplicate threads as it gets very cumbersome. & this forum tends to be for people not yet dx so your ILC post in the other forum was probaby better placed. Hang in there!