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Meeting my team of Doctors

We decided that we would travel to Nashville and go through the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center.  My first visit was with my surgeon,  Dr. Cooper.  This is when we learned more information about my Cancer, Triple Negative Breast Cancer is the diagnosis.  FYI I quickly learned not to google it, yikes. 

I have a team of doctors with over 100 years experience so we are very happy with the care that I will receive.  It was decided the best course of action is to do Chemotherapy first then surgery.  So I was referred to my oncologist Dr. Hamilton.  And MRI was ordered as well.

So remember back in June we were doing a lot of waiting, well, now things started moving and moving fast.  Met with Dr. Hamilton on a Wednesday and a treatment plan was developed.  Went that Friday to have my port put in and started CHEMO on Monday, August 29th.

My Treatment Plan:

  1. 12 weeks of CHEMO (every Monday to Nashville we go)
  2. have an MRI to see how the spot is responding
  3. 12 more weeks of CHEMO (1 time every 3 weeks)
  4. discuss surgery options 




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