I am to believe the treatment for TN is have chemo first so I was referred to an oncologist. I am 71 and in spite of having diabetes and heart disease I am pretty fit. My cardiologist cleared me to have chemo so I surprised that the oncologist said having chemo wasn’t worth the risk and I should have surgery and have to accept something is going to get you sooner or later.
I returned to my breast surgeon and I am to have a lumpectomy in few days time but what I have after remains to be seen.
I feel the oncologist was writing me off because of my age. I appreciate no one lives forever and being diagnosed with TN I am a lot near to the end of life than many suffers of TN as it mainly affects younger women but I still I want the best shot of living and living well for as long as possible.
I have told my surgeon I don’t wish to see this particular oncologist again as we are not on the same page and in future I want to see someone else which I can easily do as I am having private treatment and my breast surgeon agrees. However I am worried I having surgery in the wrong order and I am not getting the optimum treatment.
