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01-22-2011, 03:01 PM
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Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Hi everyone,
Here's some inspiration for us all:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/s...y.php?id=19787
Dr. Guardino is my oncologist at Stanford - she'd always say we'll be old ladies together and her strength pulled me through.
Enjoy!
Marcia
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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01-22-2011, 10:34 PM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Not only has Dr. Guardino gone from Stanford to Genentech but
she is the second female oncologist from Stanford to have left for Genentech. The first, whose specialty was not breast cancer, was a breast cancer survivor herself.
Let's see if these two women can influences the corporate behavior there--it is now a subdivision of a big Swiss drug company, rather than the stand alone company started by two researchers.
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01-22-2011, 11:02 PM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Could she be in both places?
This link of the former-fellows lists both Genetech and Stanford in the field of her 'current location':
http://oncology.stanford.edu/fellows...r_fellows.html
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01-22-2011, 11:08 PM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Yes, Jackie, she is at Genentech but also at Stanford on a very limited basis.
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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01-23-2011, 05:28 AM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
I am really sorry she has left Stanford as a vaccine trial she was going to be the investigator on has stopped now. Hope this move will benefit us all maybe in a different way.
Ellie
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01-23-2011, 05:37 AM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Didn't read the article properly! Blown away that Dr Guardino has been treated for a melanoma. I understand Marcia how her support must have been invaluable.
Maybe the universe is conspiring in our favour after all!
Ellie (again)
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01-23-2011, 10:49 AM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
BTW, Ellie, I'm enrolling in the vaccine trial that is offered across the bay in Berkeley (same one that was offered at Stanford). Not sure if they have one for metastatic patients there, but I'll check.
And yeah, it was wonderful to have an oncologist who "gets it". She's very inspiring.
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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01-23-2011, 01:30 PM
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Re: Inspiring stories (article on our local online paper)
Thanks Marcia, I hung on hoping it would happen then she contacted my onc and told him she had left.
Ellie
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