Welcome to OCF! Im sorry you have a need for our group.

Can you please give me more info about your diagnosis, exactly where your cancer is located, how was your cancer diagnosed, and anything else pertaining to the cancer you feel is important.

At the very least I recommend getting a second opinion. If possible going to a Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC). Thats a treatment facility where a team based approach is used so all the specialists are on the same page. Hopefully a CCC is an option for your treatments. When looking at treatment plans, remember surgeons always say surgery is the way to go, same for radiologists and medical oncologists say chemo is necessary. Also remember once its been removed you cant put it back to its original functionality (even with skin graphs). This is why a second opinion is so important! Whatever facility you go to should be going by a very specific flow chart.

Usually the treatment plan would be surgery to remove the cancer. Then after about 6 weeks for recovery most patients will go thru 6 or 7 weeks of radiation treatments. Of course every [patient is slightly different so what works for one might not be the best for another. After having radiation a patients healing capabilities would be affected where their healing time is much slower.

No matter what plan you take the important thing is to eliminate the cancer and do everything possible to ensure it doesnt return. Another very important part of this is to take someone along with you to all your appointments. This way they can take notes so u can go back later if you forget or didnt understand something.

List of CCCs