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Re: Vaccine Clinical Trial, may not be able to go
Hi Jill, I wanted to respond to your post, as I am stage 4 and did stop treatment to do the vaccine trial in Seattle. I had been NED for 8 months when I started the trial in Oct. 2011, but my dr made it very clear to me that he thought the cancer would come back.
I wanted to do something that could increase my chances of possibly beating this. So , yes it was a risk to stop treatment, but I thought it was a risk worth taking.
The good news is that I had a Pet scan last Thur, and I am still NED, and I will be starting treatment again (Herceptin and Tykerb) in 2 weeks.
Laurie
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diagnosed stage 2- 3/2005
4.5 cm & 2+ nodes , er/pr- & HER2+
4 AC
12 taxol/Herceptin
Year of Herceptin
liver mets- July-2010
7 taxotere/Herceptin
RFA- Feb.2011
NED
U of Wa vaccine trial-oct 2011-Feb 2012
Herceptin/tykerb
Ned - 2 1/2 years
Herceptin & perjeta
Ned 3 years
Herceptin- reducing treatments , due to s/e, to 5-6 a year
NED- 3 1/2 years
Ned - 4 years
2/15- stopped herceptin - on no treatment
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