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From everything I have read, the way that alcohol is metabolized isn't real good for you, breast cancer or not. Sugar isn't much different. (There is a book called Intuitive Healing by Ruth Moran RN that describes this--if you can get past some of the author's "head trash," there is some good info in it.) I had an alternative medicine internist tell me that any alcholo intake is a risk factor for BC, but once you have had BC, she doesn't recommend any alcohol intake at all. While on Herceptin, my tolerance for alcohol has been severely diminished, so I limit myself to a beer every so often. I remember while I was on Herceptin/Taxol/carbo, the drink that agreed with me most was a Cosmopolitan--wine was a disaster. What I wouldn't give for some legal marijuana :-)
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Dx 11/04, Age 42, ER-/PR-, HER2+++
3 months weekly Herceptin, Taxol. Carboplatin
Significant tumor shrinkage
Mastectomy 3/05; Stage 3b, 9 cm tumor, 5/8+ nodes
3 more months weekly Herceptin, Taxol. Carboplatin
7/05 30 radiation treatments, IMRT planning approach
Started 1 year of Herceptin 9/05
9/06 Began quarterly triple doses Herceptin. Brain & breast MRIs semi annually.
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6/08 Right breast, intraductal carcinoma, high nuclear grade associated with comedo necrosis; extensive diffusely involved the entire biopy specimen. ER+, PR-, Her2 unknown at this point, 07/08 mastectomy.
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