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late Herceptin
I wish I had known about this site a week ago! I started Herceptin again last week and will continue for 10 months. I've been cancer free (I hope) for 4 yrs. But I was worried about a recurrance - I had stage 3, Her2++ and no clear margins after mastectomy. I debated the pros and cons with my onc. and agonized about the possible heart problems. My onc.checked with all of the top onc. in the country and the bottom line is no one knows the right answer. We both decided that is was good insurance to do it. If I don't take it and the cancer recurrs we'll both be mad at ourselves and if it does recurr, at least we'll know we did everything we could. Plus, you can live with congestive heart failure if that should happen (hopefully, NOT).
We are so lucky that the drug exists to give us hope.
Eileen
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