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Old 08-20-2011, 12:59 PM   #45
chekmark
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Re: HER2 learning more is it a bad thing?

I just want to make sure that I understand this correctly. You were diagnosed a year and a half ago and are thinking about doing herceptin now? I also had a 1.5 cm her2+ tumor with neg nodes and was told I needed both chemo and herceptin from the get go and started on femara. (Like tamoxifin but for post menapausal). Can they even do herceptin this late in the game? You got my head spinning. Like the others have said I think you should maybe consider a second opinion or have a heart to heart with your current oncologist. Yes this cancer thing is a very scary thing and unfortunately we have to deal with it forever. l hope that you qet the answers that you are looking for so that you can have some piece of mind. Good luck to you.
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DX Sept 30 2010 at the age of 49. Oh crap! 1.5 cm idc, stage 1 grade 3 er/pr+, her2+ no lymph nodes, mastectomy Oct/10. Started 6 rounds of TCH Dec/10 and will continue herceptin until Nov /11 and just started femara.
Stray kitten found my lump while I was playing with it. It is now my pet and my dog is not real happy about that.
Mammo good
last herceptin 11/21/11 YAY
reconstruction 12/09/11
Chapter closed 12/10/11, hopefully, fingers crossed
Bone scan, chest xray, clear
04/27/12 Expander removed, implant put in, ahh sigh of relief, much more comfortable
Sept 30, 2014, 4 years NED
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