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| 1/22/2012 | Hello: I have 1 medistinal lymph node and spread to bread skin. I have recurrent breast cancer with a 2 cm tumour. It is ER positive, PR positive HER-negative. I am being treated in Toronto with 2.5 mg Letrozole and have been advised that I am stage 4 and not much more info. I can afford a second opinion (within reason). | ||
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| 1/22/2012 | you are welcome to come down to us. a second opinion can be quite valuable when facing such a situation. call 410-955-8964 and the oncology referral office will get you scheduled with one of our breast medical oncologists. Whenever there is metastatic disease present, it is important to do a biopsy of that tissue to determine if the prognostic factors (ER, PR and HER2) are the same. In a portion of women they end up being the opposite of what they were in the breast. thought i should mention this important point. | ||
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