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Old 07-06-2006, 07:34 PM   #1
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Femara?
How soon do you start a drug like Femara after chemo? Right away...or do you wait till your body has recovered from chemo?


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Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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Old 07-06-2006, 07:40 PM   #2
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I started right away.
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Old 07-07-2006, 06:57 AM   #3
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I'd think right away unless you're doing radiation in which case, after that.
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Old 07-07-2006, 01:11 PM   #4
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I started right away.
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Old 07-07-2006, 02:09 PM   #5
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I haven't been started on anything yet. Maybe its like Sarah said and I will start "after" Radiation therapy? I haven't started that yet...but sometime soon.

I wonder why you can't do femara or tamoxifen at the same time as Rads? All I have now is weekly herceptin.

Did others here do femara or tamoxifin while doing their radiation too...or AFTER their Rads?

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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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Old 07-07-2006, 08:39 PM   #6
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I took tamoxifen during my radiation.
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Stage IIIC, 17 of 20 Nodes +, E+, Her2+++
Diagnosed 6/30/05
Lumpectomy 7/13/05
Dose Dense A/C x 4
Weekly Taxol + Herceptin x 12
Remainder of year Herceptin Every 3 weeks (completes 9/13/06)
Radiation completed 2/28/06
Currently on Tamoxifen
Dec 06 - Pleural effusion treated with pleurodesis
Now er/pr-, her2++
1/07 started weekly Navelbine plus Herceptin
Discontinued Tamoxifen
4/27/07 CTshowed progression
5/01/07 Began Tykerb/Xeloda + Zometa
5/22/07 Stopped treatment due to great progression
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Old 07-07-2006, 09:14 PM   #7
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My doc said after is normal, but during OK
My doc said hormonals after is normal but during is Ok. She gave me the script early and left it up to me. I felt like I had enough on my plate and waited til after but in hindsight I could have handled the hot flashes along with rads. It looks like people are doing them pre-surgery, so I think now I would do them during rads.
Tamox has been very easy for me and I'm almost reluctant to switch to an AI, even though it's suppose to be better. Uterine cancer versus osteoporosis, I just can't decide. It will all work out. What keeps me sane is I imagine that 2 years from now, if I have no problems, my mindset will be different than it is right now. I've gone from insane at diagnosis to oscillating between hopeful and insane 1 year later. So if all goes well, 1 year from now, I'll be mostly hopeful. I hope you will be too. BB
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