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AlaskaAngel · 05-22-2009, 10:36 AM

This is an option I wish I would have explored more back in 2002 when I was treated for bc. The first opinion I got was for CAF x 6, the customary treatment at that time, which I eventually completed. The second opinion I got was from an onc at the Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, who was even back then using metronomic chemo with similar chemo (CEF). The epirubicin was in more common use in Europe and Canada, whereas Adriamycin was in more common use in the US.

I was not told at the time that I was HER2+, and the trastuzumab trial results were not yet available. I never received trastuzumab.

About 5 years after I completed the CAF regimen I attended a lecture about breast cancer presented by the onc who prescribed the CAF x 6. He was very interested by then in the metronomic chemo.

A.A.

Still NED at 7 years out

05-22-2009, 10:36 AM	#5
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	Metronomic chemotherapy This is an option I wish I would have explored more back in 2002 when I was treated for bc. The first opinion I got was for CAF x 6, the customary treatment at that time, which I eventually completed. The second opinion I got was from an onc at the Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, who was even back then using metronomic chemo with similar chemo (CEF). The epirubicin was in more common use in Europe and Canada, whereas Adriamycin was in more common use in the US. I was not told at the time that I was HER2+, and the trastuzumab trial results were not yet available. I never received trastuzumab. About 5 years after I completed the CAF regimen I attended a lecture about breast cancer presented by the onc who prescribed the CAF x 6. He was very interested by then in the metronomic chemo. A.A. Still NED at 7 years out