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Old 01-27-2012, 06:49 AM   #23
Lauriesh
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 199
Re: Vaccine Clinical Trial, may not be able to go

Hi Steph, I do have one more trip for the final blood draw next week. I sent you a pm awhile ago, don't know if you ever got it.

My husband and I are just flying in the evening before and then leaving after my appointment. With the time change, and getting everything set with our three kids before we leave, it has been exhausting.

I also have had no side effects, and am glad that I did it.

To JIllaryjill, I would want to do everthing I could to help prevent the cancer from coming back. Her2+ cancer can be so tricky. I went five years before my stage 2 cancer came back as mets to my liver, to the shock of my drs, as I was er/pr- and was on no meds for 4 years after finishing my year of Herceptin. My onc told me at my five year check up that I had less than a 1% chance of it coming back and yet here I am.

Laurie
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diagnosed stage 2- 3/2005
4.5 cm & 2+ nodes , er/pr- & HER2+
4 AC
12 taxol/Herceptin
Year of Herceptin
liver mets- July-2010
7 taxotere/Herceptin
RFA- Feb.2011
NED
U of Wa vaccine trial-oct 2011-Feb 2012
Herceptin/tykerb
Ned - 2 1/2 years
Herceptin & perjeta
Ned 3 years
Herceptin- reducing treatments , due to s/e, to 5-6 a year
NED- 3 1/2 years
Ned - 4 years
2/15- stopped herceptin - on no treatment
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