Yesterday, I received a call from Dr. Efren Domingo’s clinic asking me to see him today. Quite confusing though – what could have happened since I last saw him a day ago as I didn’t even have a pending laboratory results anyway? So I proceeded to see him and became his first patient on a Saturday morning.
Dr. Domingo told me that he conducted a ‘medical junta’ after my consultation last Thursday. In the medical junta, he gathered 4 oncologists in different specialization to discuss my disease. Because of its rarity in nature, he called a Medical Oncologist, a Surgical Oncologist, a Hematologist-Oncologist, and an Immunologist-Oncologist. Their conclusion was to put me first under active surveillance of a Medical Oncologist. A Medical Oncologist specializes in treating cancer with chemotherapy. The purpose of putting me under active surveillance was to see whether the condition progresses which would enable us to know what kind of threat my disease poses and they could make a better decision how urgently the treatment would be needed. I would learn more about my treatments on Friday as I was scheduled to meet my Medical Oncologist. For now, Dr. Domingo said that the important thing was that I’m tumor free (from surgery) and I had the initial CHOP treatment for my Lymphoma. He will continue to monitor me as my Gynecologic Oncologist with Dra. Manalo as my Infertility OB.
To close the medical junta, they needed to inform the patient to avoid confusions. He said there were times the patient was needed to participate in the junta. I guess more heads are better than one so this was really no big deal to me. Being closely monitored by specialists and having it documented were good news as well.
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