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Re: Cough from Tykerb...ANYONE???
I have been on Tykerb for about 6 weeks and in the last two weeks have developed a cough like you describe...more of a tickle in my chest really. I don't have big coughing attacks, just a cough or two and then I am fine until I do the same thing again later. I was also sick with a pretty bad cough about 4-5 weeks ago so not sure if it could just be a post-viral type cough that is hanging on. I worry mostly that it is a symptom of lung mets. Does the paranoia ever get better??!!
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Lori, age 33
*IBC (ER+,PR-,Her2+) on right diagnosed 8/09 with metastatic lymph node left axilla (Er-,PR-,Her2+) vs possible bilateral breast cancer
*A/C x4
*Taxol x4 with weekly herceptin
*Breast MRI 12/09- no improvement
*PET scan 12/09- no evidence of mets
*Tykerb/Xeloda 12/09
*Bilateral MRM 4/10
*Twice daily rads to both chest walls and both axillas 5/10-6/10
*9/10 PET/CT- NED
*Tykerb/Xeloda until 12/10
*Tykerb and Tamoxifen 12/10-current. Bye bye Xeloda
*2/11- malignant pleural effusions bilaterally (likely lymphangitic lung mets) and skin mets
Herceptin and Ixempra
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