dr. john olson is standing by to take your call. 410-481-2222. if you have surgery to remove breast cancer how does that affect you? >> the principal is to make sure the tumor is removed with negative margins. so if there's any compromise in that, there's a greater risk in local recurrence. that local recurrence in some cases is associated with more difficult to treat recurrences that can lead to premature death. it's very important that breast surgery be done well and by somebody who dedicates themselves to it. >> dr. olson will be in the studio until 6:30. >>> last night's elimination of joey fatone and his partner kym johnson left some in shock. it's tougher than before. fatone did really well, but it wasn't enough to save him this time. now that fatone is gone, even previous champions aren't safe. they ended up in the bottom two last night. >> they asked mow to come back. >> it's a crappy position. we'll make sure we're not in that position again. >> they're going to have another chance to prove themselves next week with the double dreaded el

i think in the future we'll expect the same type of gains. >> dr. olson, thank you very much. we'll have him through 6:30 talking to us as well as taking the calls next door. in addition to getting your questions answered, again, he will be in studio until 6:30 and the komen maryland race for the cure. you still have an opportunity to get more opportunity. just head to abc2news.com/think pink. doctor, we'll be talking with you coming up. >> thank you. >> cloudy day but warm temperatures. take a live look downtown. current temperatures 80 degrees at bwi in the city. we had 85 today. no trouble with that and warm, warm weather. it feels summer like. it really does, despite the cloud cover. talking about october baseball. dundalk today, you can see the clouds held tough larks little sun sneaking through at times. havre de grace today a nice looking day on the susquehanna but generally cloudy skies. laurel had a few more peeks of sunshine but for the most part you can see a great day around here but a warm day with dynamic heating on a warm southerly breeze and high humidity. so r

dr. john olson, the head of the surgical department. doctor, tell us what role do genetics play? >> that's a great question. it's very clear that the research is showing that cancer in general is a genetic disease due to mutations in some of the dna in our cells and tissues that allow transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell. so understanding the genetics of the tumor can help us understand the outcome, can predict response to therapy and help define new targets for therapy that will really continue the advances we've seen in our research to find cures for breast cancer. >> when picking a physician, when picking a hospital, why is it so important to have the right question that you're armed with information. >> information is empowering, the more that you know about your own situation, the better questions you can make and the better decisions you can maifnlgt cans -- make. cancer is a very scary situation. when you hear the word cancer, the pan pick button goes off. after that to get information from a variety of sources. there are online prints resources and to really