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Christine MH-UK · 05-11-2006, 02:19 PM

I'm sticking with the year because all that is known is that a year seems to be beneficial. The reason I would not cut it short was that it is not known for certain that shorter periods are as beneficial. Just yesterday, there was a study of elderly colon cancer patients that showed that there was a critical number of months for them to receive 5-FU, a chemo drug, and if they cut it short then they received no benefit from the chemo at all. So, I'm sticking it out until I have done my year.

I figure that there are some women who have been on herceptin for a long time and that if one year of herceptin is likely to cause problems it will probably be in a long time. However, without herceptin, maybe I wouldn't be around at that point, given a rathr poor prognosis. Maybe I'll just have to start fundraising for the heart disease charities.

05-11-2006, 02:19 PM	#6
Christine MH-UK Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 414	What is known I'm sticking with the year because all that is known is that a year seems to be beneficial. The reason I would not cut it short was that it is not known for certain that shorter periods are as beneficial. Just yesterday, there was a study of elderly colon cancer patients that showed that there was a critical number of months for them to receive 5-FU, a chemo drug, and if they cut it short then they received no benefit from the chemo at all. So, I'm sticking it out until I have done my year. I figure that there are some women who have been on herceptin for a long time and that if one year of herceptin is likely to cause problems it will probably be in a long time. However, without herceptin, maybe I wouldn't be around at that point, given a rathr poor prognosis. Maybe I'll just have to start fundraising for the heart disease charities.