Re: Her3
Thanks, I guess I can't figure out if being highly positive is worse than being mildly positive, or if the fact that you are positive for her2 is equally bad regarding recurrence.
I will start a hormonal drug. Not sure which one as I am considering a oopherectomy also, so that would change. I was starting menopause when this happened and chemo has thrown me into it. The only reason I am having chemo is that it works better with the herceptin, at least that is what all three of the oncs I interviewed believe. Otherwise, chemo wouldn't have been in my picture.
I too have read about people who started with the same thing I had and then the next thing they have a recurrence and are stage IV. My onc is not a big doer of continuous scans and testing saying it often leads to seeing things that are really nothing.
I will be pushing for everything I can get!
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1/2011 IDC, <1 cm (barely), er+ (mildly), pr+ (weakly), Her2 +(highly),
Stage 1, Grade 2, no lymph, clean margins (surgeon said best possible pathology)
2/28/2011 Bilateral Mastectomy with immediate reconstruction
3/22-Taxol weekly x 12
Herceptin weekly x 12, then every 3 weeks for 9 more months
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