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I admit to being very sensitive to situations like you have described. But..and I wasn't there..but I wonder if maybe the nurse was "dumbing down" the Herceptin vs Tykerb issue. After all, they are both used to address Her2..even if Tykerb works on her1 as well..i.e. different. Not saying I'm in favor of dumbing down but it is different than being uninformed. There are ways to ask them what they mean by that to see if they truly are uniformed. The lack of knowledge about countering side effects is disconcerting. You'd think this would be where onc nurses would focus since they have more input into this area. But..ran into similar knowledge deficits when my Mom was taking Xeloda. Although in that case, most approaches weren't readily available on the drug company's website.
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