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Re: Drug for chemo brain
I should have added this link:
http://3rdparty.naturalstandard.com/frameset.asp
Edited to add: I de-clickified the link, because if you click it, access will be denied. The entire line needs to be cut and pasted into the address bar of your browser. I'm not sure why this happens, but that's the way it works.
An annual Natural Standard subscription for individuals is $200, which may be off-putting to those who are not total obsessos (like me). On the other hand, the above link is free, and for most people, it's probably more useful than a 100+ page supplement monograph. (Although if anyone would like to read such a thing for a particular supplement, my license includes sharing privileges.)
The Nutritional Medicine Comprehensive Database has a consumer version that's half the cost of the professional version. I seem to recall that at least one cancer center has an account which allows patients free access (MD Anderson, maybe). I don't know of any other cost-free links.
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2/6/09 Core needle biopsy: negative; Mammos through 2010: no change
3/30/11 Pea-sized lump in left breast at site of prior biopsy; mammo negative, sonogram not so much
4/14/11 Core needle biopsy: negative for cancer
5/18/11 Excisional biopsy 1.2 cm tumor, LVI, positive margin; ER+60%,PR+20%,HER2/CEP17 5
6/15/11 BMX: Left DCIS & LH; Right ADH; SNB: 2/3 nodes: 1.4 cm and 1 mm; ALND L1&2: 0/10; Stage IIa, Grade 3
7/14/11 CT/Bone scans NED; MUGA 66%
7/19/11 Biweekly dd AC w/Neulasta; done 8/30/11
9/13/11 Transfusion (Hemoglobin 8.6); MUGA 64%
9/20/11 Start Taxol + Herceptin; Taxol done 12/6/2011; continue Herceptin until 9/4/2012
12/27/11 Radiation - 6 weeks; 2/27/2012 - DONE! Yayyyy!
2/29/12 Start Tamoxifen 20 mg/day; continue until 2/28/17
5/16/12 Start five-years Metformin trial
6/19/12 MUGA 61%
8/21/12 Brain MRI NED (head still hurts, brain still fogged)
9/4/12 Herceptin done!
9/6/12 Port out!
7/11/13 Aricept 5mg for cognitive impairment; increased to 10mg as of 8/23/13; back to 5mg 12/2013
5/2014 Add Namenda 7mg
9/2014 Stop Aricept and Namenda; Neuropsychological evaluation
10/24/14 Start cognitive rehabilitation therapy
Last edited by rhondalea; 07-08-2012 at 02:46 PM..
Reason: Make link usable
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