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Old 03-13-2011, 10:06 PM   #25
Sherryg683
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Re: Tabatha Is Terminal

It is an awful lot for one family to bare. When my brother was diagnosed with advanced melanoma one month before my stage IV diagnoses, we were all in shock. It was killing my mother,two of her children had been told the worse news possible back to back. My brother died 2 years later. He told me that he had prayed to God not to take us both, that it would kill mother. In a way I feel that might have been my brothers gift to me because I'm still here and NED. What treatments have they given your niece and why will they not try something else...sherry
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Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44
13+ positive lymph nodes
Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006
4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin
NED since April 2006!!
36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately
8 years NED now
Scans every year

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