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Cary,
Thank you for your post. I'm glad to here that you have never looked back on your treatment decisions. Do you suffer from side effects from the ooph/hyst now? I am concerned that menopause will sink me into the black hole depression that I experienced during chemopause. My mood is fine on Tamoxifen but it sure wasn't during chemopause and I'm not a baseline depressed person. Also, I am worried about bone loss. That said, I do think the approach that you and Becky took is one that has no chance of feeding cancer despite whatever other side effects you have.
Best,
Janelle
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Janelle
Diagnosed October 2006 at age 37 wtih grade 3 IDC and high grade DCIS
Stage 1c triple positive, no node involvement but
vascular invasion
multifocal disease
Lumpectomy November, 2006
A/C every 3 weeks (started Jan., 2007 and finished March 2007); followed weekly Taxol (finished June 2007) concurrent with Herceptin (finished March 2008);
Bilateral Mast with immediate recon in Sept 2007; finished recon Dec. 2007
Started 5 years of tamoxifen Nov. 2007; started peptide vaccine clinical trial at MD Anderson October 2008 and finished active part of trial in April 2009 (monthly injections of AE37 peptitde (HLA type specific) with GM-CSF or GM-CSF alone depending on if I was in experimental or control group); started Zometa infusions June 25, 2009- 4mg every 6 months for 3 years (taking it "off-label" to try to prevent mets)
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