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Re: Itchy rash-Herceptin?
REQUEST--I started a thread on side effects of herceptin real or imagined several years ago (in the herceptin/tykerb forum).
I did this as drug companies are required to do post-marketing research ie, seek out if there are adverse reactions when the drugs start being used in a larger number of people of more diverse backgrounds than those included in the clinical trials prior to approval, but they do not seem to be doing so.
I have seen almost no signs that Roche (who bought herceptin) is carrying out this postmarketing research (I am not singling them out... I see little evidence that most drug companies are diligent in this requirement after drug approval) so I hoped if everyone put their complaints in and specified whether they were taking herceptin alone, with chemo, after chemo with/without antihormonals etc
that someone, someday could use the information in a way helpful to those for whom postmarketing research should be carried out.
Perhaps putting in a link on that thread to this one will help.
Thanking you in advance,
Lani
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