Chemo Holiday
Saw my oncollogist on Thursday and since my pneumonia still is not completely cleared up and my counts are low we decided that it's time for me to take a "chemo holiday." I will be getting my Herceptin treatments weekly but will not be getting my Taxol/Carboplatin until after I have a CT scan the first week of January. I asked her about doing a PET scan but she said that my lung nodules are so small that they would not show up on a PET scan. Perhaps this "chemo holiday" will enable my body to regroup and my counts to stabilize.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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