The team approach is often the best way to decide on your treatment plan. It is important to recognize that the decision ultimately lies with you and that to make the best decision takes time and energy. Solicit input from your doctor and your support system, and balance this with your personal values, wants, and needs, and the reality of having breast cancer. As mentioned earlier, the size, grade, lymph node involvement, stage of breast cancer, and estrogen-receptor status factor into your recommended breast cancer treatment plan. Depending on how aggressive you want to be with your cancer treatment, you can further investigate other bio-markers and tests that may give you the additional information needed for you to choose your treatment. Depending on the importance you place on your breast, consider whether to have a breast-conserving lumpectomy or mastectomy, and then what type of mastectomy (modified or radical). Such decisions will vary with each individual.