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Taxatore is rough. I had 4 dense doses and experienced a lot of bone pain in addition to neuropathy. The premed - Decadron - was terrible. I would be wound up for days and then all of a sudden it was like walking into a brick wall. On Decadron I couldn't sleep and then after it got out of my system I was exhausted and would sleep for a couiple days. All that being said, Taxatore is a great drug for treating cancer. It shrun my tumor to almost nothing. Good luck to you.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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