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I'm taking the TCH at 3 week intervals. I don't know what the dosage will be for the Herceptin when I'm done with chemo. I'm 3 times your size and I can't figure out why my dosage isn't really that different. My onc had told me before that it went by body mass. Geeze, I hope he passed basic math in grade school!
What is really strange is that I had my 5th tx on Friday, and today I actually feel pretty good. The last times by Sunday I was usually very sick. I had a new infusion nurse in Friday, that didn't do a very good job of sticking me. It took four tries and she really dug around in my veins before I told her to go away and get one of the regular nurses. They had no problem hooking me up. Now I wonder if this new nurse even mixed my chemo the right way? I wasn't impressed with her at all. Nice lady, but seemed to need a refill on the air in her head.
Oh, btw, my onc stopped me from taking Tamoxifin during chemo. He told me that I didn't really need to take it right now during treatment and that maybe it was causing the severe reactions that I had to TCH.
I wasn't too comfy doing that, but he's the doctor! LOL
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Diagnosis and Treatment: DX 12/07/07
Male Diagnosed with DCIS at age 39
Mastectomy on right breast
Tumor Stage pt1b NO MO
DCIS Tumor size 1.5 x 1.x .6cm
Infiltration tumor size .25X.17 cm
Bloom-Richardson Grade 3(score 8)
Nuclear Grade 3 with comedo necrosis
Estrogen+/Progestrone+/HER-2/Neu +++
FISH ratio 4.31
Lymph node removal scheduled 1/07/08
17 nodes tested and all negative 1/08/08
Started Tamoxifin 1/29/08
Oncotype DX score 52 (off the charts, according to my onc!!!)
Starting TCH 3/14/08
BRCA I Positive BRCA II Negative
Finished TC 6/27/08 continue Herceptin
8/1/08 Herceptin stopped due to low Muga score
Mastectomy on left breast 11/10/08
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