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StephN · 11-03-2006, 06:38 PM

Add your particular brand of loving care to your Mom's list of positives. YOU give her a reason to fight and for her body to continue to resist any cancer activity. You know that Herceptin stays in one's system for several months and this hold over effect has also been at work I am sure.

If her med onc will order more Herceptin, I would go for it. Even if it is for say 3 months. Many of us (myself included) are doing well on Herceptin after getting either the initial cancer or mets under control.

I have been praying that your Mom (I feel like she is Mom to all of us here!) is a responder. With the advantage that often in the older patient the cancer is not as aggressive, she probably has this also going for her.

Been waiting for these results and the news is wonderful! The suspicion that the hot spots on the last PET were from bumps or arthritis seems to have panned out. Enjoy those occasional eclairs and consider life good.

11-03-2006, 06:38 PM	#5
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Gentle Love Add your particular brand of loving care to your Mom's list of positives. YOU give her a reason to fight and for her body to continue to resist any cancer activity. You know that Herceptin stays in one's system for several months and this hold over effect has also been at work I am sure. If her med onc will order more Herceptin, I would go for it. Even if it is for say 3 months. Many of us (myself included) are doing well on Herceptin after getting either the initial cancer or mets under control. I have been praying that your Mom (I feel like she is Mom to all of us here!) is a responder. With the advantage that often in the older patient the cancer is not as aggressive, she probably has this also going for her. Been waiting for these results and the news is wonderful! The suspicion that the hot spots on the last PET were from bumps or arthritis seems to have panned out. Enjoy those occasional eclairs and consider life good. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.