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Kim,
I know what you mean about AC ruining your veins, mine are shot! I got my port in time for my second Taxol - much too late. That is the one thing I would change with my treatment. Had I known what would happen to my veins, I would have insisted on getting a port before starting chemo. Now it is a struggle to find a vein each time I have to have blood drawn or something injected.
I had my port removed about 3 months after I was done with Herceptin - easy procedure. Once I no longer needed it for treatment, I was more than happy to have it removed.
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Gerri
Dx: 11/23/05, Lumpectomy 12/12/05
Tumor 2.2 cm, Stage II, Grade 3, Sentinel Node biopsy negative
ER+ (30%) /PR+ (50%), HER2+++
AC X 4 dose dense, Taxol X 4 dose dense
Herceptin started with 2nd Taxol, given weekly until chemo done
then given every 3 weeks for one year ending on March 16, 2007
Radiation 30 treatments
Tamoxifen - 2 yrs (pre-menopausal)
May 2008 - Feb 2012 Femara
Aug 2008 - Feb 2012 Zometa every 6 months
March 2012 - Stop Femara, now Evista for bone strengthening
********** Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault
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