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AlaskaAngel · 04-22-2008, 05:09 AM

I "missed out" on Herceptin also, and then eventually chose not to have it, so here is one more who is still alive and well without it at over 6 years out. Although I was stage I and not stage III like Debbie, I also have never had a taxane at all (at least at the time the thought there was that taxanes only benefitted HR negatives). I also did not have dose dense treatment. And I have never had an AI, either.

It is very puzzling sometimes, and of course even those who received all of those things do not know with any certainty that any or all of those treatment options helped at all. We only know that for some, they do.

AlaskaAngel

04-22-2008, 05:09 AM	#23
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	Me too I "missed out" on Herceptin also, and then eventually chose not to have it, so here is one more who is still alive and well without it at over 6 years out. Although I was stage I and not stage III like Debbie, I also have never had a taxane at all (at least at the time the thought there was that taxanes only benefitted HR negatives). I also did not have dose dense treatment. And I have never had an AI, either. It is very puzzling sometimes, and of course even those who received all of those things do not know with any certainty that any or all of those treatment options helped at all. We only know that for some, they do. AlaskaAngel