Dr. Mike,

Thank you so much for the time and thoughtful post.

The terminator, as I like to call the third Dr., offered a little different view of the CAT scan films in that he focused on the fuzzier image of the bone near the tumor.

I think the biggest benefit I see from the terminator doing the procedure is that he seems to have much more experience in it given that he just did one last month... that same statement/confidence was absent from the first Dr when I questioned him on how many times he'd done the procedure he was proposing.

However, I'm sure the truth of the matter on whether the first Dr. was going to consult within his group and especially with this specialist is much less sinister than I may have portrayed so in the original post.

My wife and I are very confident in the terminator, though the first Dr. was a funny and personable doctor... the perceived experience by the terminator based off of what he told us on his experience, write-up of his bio, and other details vs. the first guy actually makes us feel better than with the first guy at this point.

I'm glad to read you're a 10 year cancer survivor comes as a good re-assurance with the recent high profile celebreties' passing (Tony Snow, Randy Pauch from the last lecture).

I know every patient, cancer, and so forth is different and I'm not properly crediting the number of people on this thread and elsewhere that have also been cancer free for a number of years, but I'm new at this and still trying to keep my mind out of those counter-productive thought processes it likes to go into.

Thanks,

Stephen