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marvass · 01-23-2017, 08:30 AM

MRI of 2 weeks ago show that the three tumors have shrunk to half, showing that taxol and lapatinib is working. However she is having complications with blood parameters and is in hospital to be controlled, having had very low blood presure 50/20, very high heart beat, 150 while sleeping, rapid breathing, low spo2 needed oxygen, low red bc, low white bc, low platelets, chest infection, near kidney failure, large fluctatuations in potassium, calcium, sodium and chlorides.
However she is settling and is now taking a blood transfusion.

01-23-2017, 08:30 AM	#219
marvass Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 105	Re: Intrathecal (IT) Herceptin (Trastuzumab) for brain mets (Leptomeningeal Metastase MRI of 2 weeks ago show that the three tumors have shrunk to half, showing that taxol and lapatinib is working. However she is having complications with blood parameters and is in hospital to be controlled, having had very low blood presure 50/20, very high heart beat, 150 while sleeping, rapid breathing, low spo2 needed oxygen, low red bc, low white bc, low platelets, chest infection, near kidney failure, large fluctatuations in potassium, calcium, sodium and chlorides. However she is settling and is now taking a blood transfusion.