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Insurance approved Abraxane
I wonder if the Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane will be easier on my hair than Herceptin/Carbo/Taxol. I didn't loose enough hair that time for people to even notice, but my new oncologist seems to think it was because my doses were smallter than the ones he wants to give me.
I just keep saying "if it's going to work, it will work in the lower dosages. It didn't work when I did dose-dense treatment any better than the lower dose." I almost feel like the adjuvant dose dense treatment was a complete waste of time. I was practically stage 1, and it still came back. The dose-dense combo obviously didn't work.
Why can't I have the lower dose and keep my hair? Why does this oncologist want to trump my old oncologist?
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Jan04: Bilateral Mastectomy at age 28
Initial DX: Left Breast: IDC 2cm, Grade 3, HER2+3, 0 Nodes +, ER/PR-. Right Breast: Extensive DCIS ER-/PR+; Stage 1-2a
Feb04-Apr04: 4 AC, dose dense
Aug 04: 4 Taxotere
Dec 05: Bone and Liver METS; Stage 4. Carboplatin/Taxol/Herceptin. DX with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Apr 06: NED, maintenance Herceptin
Apr 07: CA1503=14; masses in liver; Xeloda/Tykerb
Nov 07: NED, Tykerb maintenance
Sept 08: Liver mets again, on Tykerb/Xeloda again, CA=19 and 27
Nov 08: Progression, Tykerb/Gemzar, CA=25
Dec 08: Progression, Herceptin/Navelbine, CA=40, 57, and 130
Jan 09: Progression in bone, recession in liver, Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane CA=135
June 09: CA27/29=24, chemo break
Sept 09: Progression, CA=24, waiting on clinical trial (4 weeks no treatment)
Nov 09: now have brain mets, trial "on hold", getting 14 WBR treatments starting 11/2/09
Dec 09: possible start on p53 trial
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