Oncologists

I find Attai's very interesting. I was referred to a breast surgeon by a Dr of Radiology. My breast surgeon told me flat out "you will need surgery for sure" and then she did the surgery. She is a past President of ACS in my area and one of the doctors on the board of directors at the hospital I had the surgery at. It confuses me to see a statement "Once cancer is diagnosed, the breast surgeon will work with the medical oncologist and radiation oncologist as a team to decide in a multidisciplinary fashion what the best treatment is. " It makes me feel that I am having treatment done backward. I don't know. I return to the surgeon on the 30th (my lumpectomy was done on the 19th). The tumor is stage 2A. No spread to the nodes. I have to wonder how my treatment is going to be handled. I don't think the surgeon will be dishing out what a radiology oncologist is supposed to be doing. This surgeon also said she believes I will NEED chemo. I am not accepting that yet. I did find out about Oncotype DX which will help with MY decision to go ahead with chemo or not. I am just confused about what Dr Attai says here. I need to know that I am on the right road to recovery. My surgeon answered this question when I asked why I needed to keep seeing him after I finished my active treatment for inflammatory breast cancer. He said, "oncologists treat cancer but are not trained to diagnose cancer." When I questioned my oncologist, he basically gave the same answer, saying "I treat cancer once it's been found." In the case of breast cancer, a breast specialist/breast surgeon is typically the person who will do the necessary steps to obtain a diagnosis, then work in tandem with the oncologist to determine how to proceed with treatment. This is my understanding and should not be viewed as medical advice.