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I am back from Denver and it was a very interesting experience. There was so much information and so much of it at a very early stage that I am trying to determine how to present the info that I gathered. Rather than just post the titles/abstracts, I am going to try to synthesize some of it into a coherent whole. I will try to post it the first of the week after I have had time to digest and mull over some of it and make sure that I have some understanding of it. I will be back soon. Thanks so much to Joe and Christine for making this possible. By the way "Joe is much more handsome in person", and Christine is beautiful."
Leslie
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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