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Hi,
For those of you who have been disease free for four years, you really are in very good situation. Those adjuvant therapies, regardless which one you opted, are aimed to kill the stray cancer cells which may have migrated to other areas. In general, four years are more than sufficient time to have incubated the metastasis from these stray cells. Therefore, if nothing happened for four years, you are basically cured. Good maintenance diet including flaxseed, fish oil, exercise (to make yourself strong), should allow your body to fight off any new intruders. As you probably know, everyone is encountering daily new threat of cancer cells. It is up to your own immune system to take care of the daily threat. Therefore, to get into Herceptin after four years of disease free is an unnecessary cardiac risk. Most strong medicine carries with them risks and unreversible damages.
Ann
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