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This morning was my first "real" consultation with the radiation oncologist in my home town (Mount Vernon). If you recall, I met with him back in September, expecting to start radiation treatments then. However, he pulled out the results of my Oncotype DX test and blew me away with the results, resulting in my search for a second opinion and chemo treatments at Swedish Hospital. Just like in golf, a high score with the Oncotype DX test is undesirable. It turned out that, due to a measurement of 21 different genes in my tumor, I had an "intermediate" risk of distant recurrence (metastasized) cancer within 10 years. So all the radiation talk went out the window and chemo was on the agenda.


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