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Re: !!! Pertuzumab may be approved by FDA as early as Friday !!!!
It's going to be approved as a first line treatment for mets (those newly diagnosed with mets) in combination with Herceptin and taxotere.
Of course, a dr can prescribe it off label, but then the question will be, will the ins pay for it.
I had to fight my ins. to pay for tykerb, because I wasn't taking it with Xeloda. It will be interesting if ins. will deny covering this drug, if used outside of what it was approved for.
Laurie
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diagnosed stage 2- 3/2005
4.5 cm & 2+ nodes , er/pr- & HER2+
4 AC
12 taxol/Herceptin
Year of Herceptin
liver mets- July-2010
7 taxotere/Herceptin
RFA- Feb.2011
NED
U of Wa vaccine trial-oct 2011-Feb 2012
Herceptin/tykerb
Ned - 2 1/2 years
Herceptin & perjeta
Ned 3 years
Herceptin- reducing treatments , due to s/e, to 5-6 a year
NED- 3 1/2 years
Ned - 4 years
2/15- stopped herceptin - on no treatment
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