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Late Herceptin
Gina, CLT Ann, HER-2-new-bie...
As an early stage HercepTest Her2+++ in 2002 and still NED who got caught in the pool of people who are prevented from proving Herceptin is useful for people like me, so far the general field of oncologists are content to label those like me as not needing Herceptin when they haven't proven that we don't. They freely admit they do not yet have long-term reliable statistics for HER2+++ patients, and they are recommending Herceptin for anyone with my cancer characteristics who is newly diagnosed.
Do I really want to take the chance that in the end, enough of those people in my situation will prove that the oncologists "guessed" right about us, or would I rather do what I can to get Herceptin now?
I'm not a pessimist but given that they are supporting the use of Herceptin in the newly diagnosed who have my cancer characteristics, that 5% chance looks pretty good to me even if it is a hassle to do more treatment.
AlaskaAngel
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