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Hi All~

Yet another shift of the gears in this bumpy search for treatment options.
I met with an Interventional Radiologist last week to talk about SIR-Spheres -liver directed therapy with radioactive pellets - was all prepared to have the preliminary shunt study and the procedure to follow. But he called me yesterday and said that after speaking with my onc, they've decided that chemo embolization, using adriamyacin, would be the better option for me.
Since I was diagnosed with Stage IV -liver mets- at my primary diagnosis, I never did Adria. We jumped right to Herceptin + Navelbine, then ultimately Taxol, and since then just about every other drug...
So since I've never been exposed to Adria, they think I may respond really well. God I hope so. And in order to qualify for the the TDM1 Expanded Use program, you have to have had Adria.
The plan is to continue on a 3 week cycle of Ixempra/Herceptin, then on my off week do the chemo-embo with Adriamycin. They're not concerned about cardiotoxicity, so I guess I'll just trust them on that.

I don't know how I feel about all of this. Just trying to hang on for the ride as I get yanked in different directions.

Any feedback from anyone who's had chemo-embo would be so appreciated.

Keeping the Faith~

Jessica