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Re: Just Getting Started
Oh...one more thing. If you Google HER2+, be careful - I cried for days on end after doing that. You have to look at dates of research out there. Most of it is outdated, prior to Herceptin, and now Perjetta. A friend of mine who went through this 6 months prior to me, told me "We have the worst cancer with the best treatment"
After my first round of chemo, I could no longer feel the lump, and then at the mid-chemo scan, the lump had almost completely disappeared. For me, the chemo is working to get rid of this bad-boy, so I have always kept that in mind during the icky feeling times of chemo, loosing my hair, etc.
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1/17/14 Day after 44th b-day, Got dx of 2 malignancies Rt breast; ER/PgR- HER2+
1/21/14 Biopsy of spot on left; normal
1/28/14 PET scan - CLEAR!
1/29/14 BRCA normal!
1/31/14 Sentinel node biopsy
2/5/14 Nodes are CLEAR! Stage I/IIa, N0, M0
2/13/14 Start Chemo, 6 rounds for 18 weeks prior to surgery
2/28/14 Port placed
3/6/14 Chemo Round 2
3/27/14 Chemo Round 3 (halfway done!)
4/11/14 u/s shows 2cm tumor about 2x5mm now!
4/17/14 Chemo Round 4
5/8/14 Chemo Round 5 and Daughter's Birthday :)
5/27/14 Last Chemo Party - Round 6
6/17 14 Herceptin only until next Feb.
6/20/14 BMX/Immediate reconstruction DONE
6/30/14 Path report back...NED!
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