Re: Chime in please! Has herceptin (or tykerb)affected your eyebrows/lashes,fingers/t
Happy Christmas Eve Day!!! I have been off Herceptin for 3 years this past Oct 2010. My nails have really improved in fact they grow too fast. My eyebrows grew back but are thin. My hair is baby fine and it had been thick and had alot of body. I still have and probably will always have bad neuropathy in hands and feet. But, we are still here!!! We can deal with it. Mary L
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Mary L from PA Diag: Oct 2003 w/6mm mass, IDC grade III ductal carcinoma in-situ, IBC stage IIIB. tx A/C followed by Taxotere(only able to have 2 tx, allergic), mastectomy, 3 0ut of 7 positive nodes. 35 rads. Recurrence 9 months later, skin mets to mastectomy site. Tx Carboplatin/Herceptin. Stayed on Herceptin almost 5 years, had 3 more recurrences when I had to stop Herceptin due to my ejection fraction getting too low. Herceptin stopped and ned 3 years in Oct. 2010.
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