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Re: Herceptin/Tykerb clinical trial for early stage
Hopefully this type of trial will make Tykerb available to patients like me & Gouri who were newly diagnosed with no mets. It worked so wonderfully for me. Part of the trial was to get biopsies along the way. The first time mine was due they could not even find the tumor on ultrasound to get the biopsy and by the end of the 3 months my tumor was just melted away. They never did get that biopsy even though they tried one more time after the first one and there was just nothing there on that ultrasound either!
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Vicky
Age 47, TN, Diagnosed 05/09
Her2+, ER/PR-, Stage III, 2 tumors = 1 8cm tumor
Grade 3
Sentinel Node Biopsy-speck present in 1 node
Completed 3 month clinical trial of weekly Herceptin and 1000mg Tykerb daily
Tumor no longer present
Right mastectomy and lymph node removal 09/25/09
No cancer present at time of surgery, none in lymph nodes
Start TCH 10/15, every 3 weeks for 4 months followed by radiation
Finished chemo 01/28/10-YEAH!
Herceptin every 3 wks until end of June
Radiation begins 03/01, 6 1/2 weeks
Radiation complete--Yeah!!
Developed lymphedema after radiation
In hospital for 4 days with pneumonia:(
Herceptin done! 06/24/10
Port Removed 07/08/10
Still in PT for lymphedema and mobility issues
DIEP Reconstruction 05/11
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it~~Maya Angelou
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