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Chelee · 10-23-2009, 04:09 PM

Hi Rich66, I was just told yesterday by my chemo nurse there will be no problems with labs. Instead of going to the lab for blood draws...I will now check-in the infusion room & the chemo nurses will be doing it from now on. (So one problem solved.) Very good idea to check in advance to make sure someone knows how to access power port. As you know with your Mother...thats alot of unnecessary poking & stabbing of veins when we have power port...I would think most cancer centers would have people trained to use these...but it doesn't always seem to be the case.

That's nice to hear your Mom gets the CTC test...I can't get anyone to run the Her2 serum, or CTC and I am stage IV.

Chelee

10-23-2009, 04:09 PM	#22
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Re: Who else has a Power Port? Hi Rich66, I was just told yesterday by my chemo nurse there will be no problems with labs. Instead of going to the lab for blood draws...I will now check-in the infusion room & the chemo nurses will be doing it from now on. (So one problem solved.) Very good idea to check in advance to make sure someone knows how to access power port. As you know with your Mother...thats alot of unnecessary poking & stabbing of veins when we have power port...I would think most cancer centers would have people trained to use these...but it doesn't always seem to be the case. That's nice to hear your Mom gets the CTC test...I can't get anyone to run the Her2 serum, or CTC and I am stage IV. Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.