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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr. Collette Magnant is one of the best! She started the Sullivan Breast Cancer Center at Sibley but left a few years ago. She is now with Maryland Oncology Hematology in Rockville. She operated on my sister for an early stage breast cancer and I saw her for a consult after a biopsy. She is compassionate, smart, and no nonsense. She will tell it to you straight. She surrounds herself with compassionate and skilled staff. [/quote]

I am undergoing treatment with Dr. Courtney Ackerman.  I am very pleased with her and the staff, nurses, lab techs are awesome.

https://marylandoncology.com/physicians/

I will say that I got a second opinion at Sibley from Larissa Korde  and she was also awesome. 
https://profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org/provider/larissa-a-korde/2708373

Here are several things I will suggest you do that has  been super helpful to me 
- Have a close family member who is a calm and logical person be your advocate and researcher - to begin with  You need to educate yourself quickly and be up to date with the latest treatment and options.   But, you cannot freak yourself out or be overwhelmed.  You must know to ask the right questions for you.  But, in the initial months it is helpful if you have someone.
Use AI to simplify and understand the reports and all the medical stuff (including labs, protocol, meds, standard of care etc ) in plain English. You have not gone to medical school.

- The treatments and meds are amazing and has progressed in leaps and bounds.  Someone told me that "no one dies of breast cancer anymore"  when I was diagnosed - and I found it the most loving thing someone had every said to me. I am a menopausal 63 yr old. Your sister is 30.  I will not presume that I know what she is going through.

- I realized that how well you come out of this is a matter of your mental strength.  I anchored on to yoga, breathing exercise, prayers, gratefulness, therapy, selfcare, nutrition, comedy, family and friends, new hobbies -  once I knew that I will survive it.  Do not for one moment forget that not only you will come out of this, but, you will be a far improved version of yourself in all ways. I had decided to focus on myself and not on the cancer. And that is why having DH handles everything (and not tell me anything that is not super critical). My mindspace has every pleasant thing on it except cancer.   I also do not do news, [b]I cannot be a consumer of bystander trauma.[/b] 
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Yes. 100% this. [/quote]

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