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Thank you Nancy, for your response. I'm glad you're having a good response from the Herceptin/Tykerb. Have you had a CT/PET scan yet? Looks like Sheila is in the same club. You guys are tough!
Sheila, was wondering why they did not put you on Herceptin right off the bat?
I take off my hat to you two who have been on Herceptin for such a long time, and here I am complaining about being on it since November.
Has either Herceptin or Tykerb shrunk the nodes at all? How has your MUGA or echocardiograms been? I guess that's what worries me the most is heart function loss, but I have heard that it comes back when Herceptin is stopped.
Anyway, I salute you girls. This is not a club any of us want to be in and you are both so inspiring.
Diannes
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Three years and 5 months NED
Dx: Aug 2008 right breast IDC with 50% of tumor DCIS, Stage II or IIA, tumor size: 2.1 cm
Grade 3
8/9 Richardson/Bloom test
ER+ weakly positive
Alred Score: 4 (suggesting I would strongly benefit from hormone therapy)
PR-,
HER2 positive +++
No vascular invasion
No lymph nodes involved
Surgery: Sept. 9, 2008 -Modified radical mastectomy, right breast. I chose to have a simple mastectomy on the left. Began Taxotere/Carboplatin/Herceptin November, 2008. Finished T/C March 2009. Finished #16 Herceptin Sept. 09. AI's and Tamoxifen made me sick. Began natural Tamoxifen which is Quercetin, I3C and a combo of other supplements. I am also a DES Daughter. There is now a link between DES exposure in utero and breast cancer!
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