Tomorrow we will meet with a medical oncologist (Dr. Matt Yurgelun) and a radiation oncologist (Dr. Harvey Mamon) at Dana-Farber in Boston. We are curious whether they will suggest a similar treatment plan to that which has been described by the surgeon and the oncologist we met with last week in Concord, Dr. Divenuti.
This is complicated stuff and just because another doctor might recommend that we consider a different type of treatment doesn't mean that the first doctor was wrong. There is always so much happening with cancer research, and if there is some variation that might be just as effective without hurting Juliana as much, or might make it less likely that the cancer could come back, we would like to know about it. Our surgeon said that genetic factors might inform a slightly different approach to treatment after surgery, but that the surgery and the chemo/radiation leading up to it was pretty much the same. We will see if we hear the same thing tomorrow.
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