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Re: Chemo-brain
Diane said:
I have read that the brain is a sanctuary (think I spelled that right ) where chemo for breast cancer does not go - thus some of the nasty little buggers might set up housekeeping in the CNS. If chemo brain is true, that means that some chemo must have affected the brain, right? Doesn't this mean that the blood-brain barrier has been crossed by the drugs given to us for breast cancer?
I have wondered the same thing. How is it that the brain is so affected by drugs that are not actually reaching the brain? Anyone know?
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DX Oct 02 @ age 52 Stage 2B Grade 3 Mastectomy
"at least" 4.5 cm IDC 1+node ER+61% /PR-
Assiciated Intraductual component with Comedo Necrosis
Her2+ FISH8.6 IHC 2+
5 1/2 CEF Arimidex
Celebrex 400mg daily for 13 months
Prophylactic mastectomy
Estradiol #: 13
PTEN positive, "late" Herceptin (26 months after chemo)
Oct 05: Actonel for osteopenia from Arimidex.
May 08: Replaced Actonel with Zometa . Taking every 6
months.
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