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Re: Cancer secret to success?! Finding your match!
GDP,
I didn't realize you had a forum or I would have joined a long time ago. However, my physicians appreciate that I didn't know, ha, ha, ha. It seems that it is a sin at my treatment facility for a patient to read medical journals.
Oh joy, all the information, and from PHDs, no less. My poor oncologist, thank heavens he only sees me annually.
To be honest, I don't have much familiarity with many of the names, assays, concepts, etc that you discuss so easily. Such as who is CMA? or Palmetto, GBA?
I am with you on the personalized treatment. I was under the impression in 2007 that nothing was available to test if a chemo would be effective. However, you say CMS decided to reimburse for sensitivity AND resistance testing in 2006. If I had know this testing was available I would have insisted on it.
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Diagnosed 2007
Stage IIb Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Pagets, 3 of 15 positive nodes
Traditional Treatment: Mastectomy and Axillary Node Dissection followed by Taxotere, 6 treatments and 1 year of Herceptin, no radiation
Former Chemo Ninja "Takizi Zukuchiri"
Additional treatments:
GP2 vaccine, San Antonio Med Ctr
Prescriptive Exercise for Cancer Patients
ENERGY Study, UCSD La Jolla
Reconstruction: TRAM flap, partial loss, Revision
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