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Re: A note to say HI
I will be in and out for some time. Freya, they actually sent me two "Cell Death Tour" shirts. I have been using information I learned at the AACR meeting in my classes. I use it to point out targets for therapy, etc., in my Anatomy and Physiology classes, I talk about "energy balance" and cancer in my Nutrition classes. I am just so snowed under that I hardly ever have time to come up for air (or conversation.) I am exhausted most of the time but it is a "good" tired and it won't be this way forever. The first year is the hardest, or so I'm told. Not much time for painting, though. I miss all of "y'all".
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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