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v-ness · 04-25-2017, 02:47 PM

hi all - this week it has been 7 years since i finished rads (although i still had herceptin until october 2010). last year my onco told me we could "break up" if i wanted. i wasn't really so keen on the idea. i was wondering when people who are said to be cancer-free stop going to their onco once a year and return to just yearlies with their gyno and mammograms? i had some odd-shaped little micro-calcifications in the fall for which i had a needle core biopsy (ouch) but they were benign. i have a six month mammo re-check in june. i didn't want to be a baby and hang on to my onco but wondered when others felt secure enough to let go? i seemed to remember that her2+ recurred within 8 yrs usually if it was going to.... is that true? thank you! valerie

04-25-2017, 02:47 PM	#1
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	when did you 'break up' with your onco? hi all - this week it has been 7 years since i finished rads (although i still had herceptin until october 2010). last year my onco told me we could "break up" if i wanted. i wasn't really so keen on the idea. i was wondering when people who are said to be cancer-free stop going to their onco once a year and return to just yearlies with their gyno and mammograms? i had some odd-shaped little micro-calcifications in the fall for which i had a needle core biopsy (ouch) but they were benign. i have a six month mammo re-check in june. i didn't want to be a baby and hang on to my onco but wondered when others felt secure enough to let go? i seemed to remember that her2+ recurred within 8 yrs usually if it was going to.... is that true? thank you! valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!