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Re: FDA Decision Re Perjeta
I agree with Phil. There are stage 4 women who could benefit today from perjeta and who can't wait years for approval
It is hard, lizbeth to be " generous of spirit" when you are stage 4 and you see other women with young children who are dying because they don't have access to drugs that are out there but we're approved for such a limited use, they can't get them.
There is a difference between early stage having access to drugs and stage 4. We are terminal. We know what we will die of, and need every drug that is available now to keep us alive.
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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