thats so funny!
Joy, I laughed out loud at your post. I just got home from my doctors office where we discussed T-X. I got that same literature and immediately noticed the pictures of the woman on the toilet. I'm not sure when my pills will arrive. My nurse was calling my insurance company to get it arranged. I sure hope I don't become that lady in the picture. My nurse stressed to take all 5 Tykerb pills at the same time to decrease the side effects and they gave me Vit. B-6 and Udder Cream lotion to use for the Xeloda side effects.
Hope it all goes well for you!
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Jean B
Inflammatory Breast Cancer 2003
A/C Taxol dose dense regimen
6 weeks radiation
1 year Herceptin
NED for 2 years and 4 months
Recurrence in July 2006 with extensive liver mets over 70%, tumor obstructing bile duct-gallbladder, mets to spine and pelvis, abdominal lymph nodes enlarged, mass on pancreas.
Hospice called in until Gemzar and Herceptin started in Aug. 2006
May 2007 pet scan shows only 1 liver lesion 1.1 cm. bone mets gone, no enlarged lymph nodes.
June 2007-Switch to Tykerb/Xeloda because markers increased
Sept 2007-tumor marker 357-2.4 cm mass on pancreas,1 cm lesion on thyroid, duodenum and more liver mets.--switch to abraxane/carboplatin/herceptin and doing much better
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