My Wife Rachel Was Just Diagnosed With HER-2+ Breast Cancer (Please Help ...)

[bmorr7]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for all the helpful advice that you've given Rachel. We're heading back to the hospital on Friday so that our surgeon can try to get clearn margins at the deep and side margins. She's confident that she'll be able to do that.

We met again with our oncologist and he recommendeds the TCH regimen (Docetaxel, Carboplatin, Herceptin) for her HER-2 positive, ER positive, node negative treatment. I just spoke with another oncologist who strongly recommended Paclitaxel/Herceptin. She said that the PH regimen is much less toxic. She also mentioned that some patient go on the TH regimen and leave out the Carboplatin.

Do others have experience with TCH, PH, or the TH regimens. We obviously want a very effective regimen but also one with a lower rate of side effects (short-term and long-term).

Thanks,

Ben