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Hi Rich,
I've been diligently following your stem cell thread with much hope for newer targeted therapies. I've asked my oncologist about them but her opinion is that it's still early on to have much of an effect on patients like me undergoing active therapy. I'm still undergoing neoadjuvant chemo and had my 3rd Taxotere dose today (one more to go!). I'll stop the Tykeb in July and start Herceptin the day after before having my surgery sometime in August. I hope that when I'm done with Herceptin next year I'll be able to take another drug (a pill?) that will specifically target the stem cells. The research makes sense to me and I believe there should be more besides Herceptin and Tykerb coming our way.
Thanks for your continued postings on this - I've learned much fom them.
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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