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07-19-2012, 07:53 PM	#1
sassy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Mountains of Virginia Posts: 2,267 Images: 4	Re: Discharged as a Breast Cancer Patient!! Congrats Caya! Could you keep me posted on when you start to feel improvement from the side effects of Femara? I'm trying to do my own research and I'd be interested in knowing. Thanks! __________________ Rhonda (Sassy) dx age 45 DX 2/15/05 Stage IIb (at surgery)restaged IIIa Left mast .9cm tumor 5 of 14 nodes Triple Positive 4 DD A/C 12 Taxol/Herceptin 33Rads Strange infect mast site one year aft surg, hosp 1 wk Herceptin for total of 18 months Lupron Monthly 4 yrs Neurontin for aches, pains and hot flashes(It works!) Ovaries removed 11/09 stop Lupron and Neurontin Arimidex 6 yrs (tried Femara, no SE improvement) Tried Exemestane-hips got so bad could hardly walk Back to Arimidex for year seven Zometa 2X Annual for 7years, Lasix Stop Arimidex 5/13 Stop Zometa 7/13-Bi-lateral Stress Fractures in Femurs from Zometa 5/14 Start Tamoxifen 3/15 Stem cell transplant to stimulate femur bone growth/healing 5/15 Complete fracture of right femur/Titanium rods both femurs 9/16 Start Evista stopTamoxifen 3/17 Stop Evista--unwelcome side effects! NED and no meds....... 14YEARS NED!

07-19-2012, 07:58 PM	#2
dawny Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Posts: 250	Re: Discharged as a Breast Cancer Patient!! Caya, that is just the best news! Congratulations! Dawn __________________ Dx May 27 2011, age 43 Stage 1V 3.6cm breast lump, spot on lungs, nodes chest + neck HER2+ ER/PR- Abraxane weekly - 16 weeks Herceptin every third week September 26 2011 N.E.D! Herceptin ongoing 8th Dec 2011 Brain MRI - clear 20th Dec 2011 bone/cat scan clear still NED April 2012 scans show axillary node lump - ? what to do... June 2012 Axillary node dissection 1/11 nodes affected, a wide local excision shows DCIS. Now what to do again? Watch and scan 3 monthly April 2013, two spots in nodes to chest wall, start TDM1 (Kadcycla) as part of clinical trial July 2013 stable Oct 2013 progression off TDM-1 (Kadcycla) Nov 2013 radiation to lymph nodes in sternum Dec 2013. Mastectomy right side, pathology shows tumour was HER-2 negative, no wonder TDM-1 (Kadcycla) didn’t work! April 2014 NED. On Herceptin only August 2014 NED. On Herceptin only March 2015. NED. On Herceptin only September 2015 NED on Herceptin only March 2016. Pulmonary embolism, Clexane injections daily forever. Still NED On Herceptin only Nov 2016. Bone Mets in ribs - Radiation. Don’t know if bone Mets are er-/pr-/HER2+ or triple negative. Can’t give self injections on to tablets (Xarelto) for blood clots. 2017 NED - On Herceptin only 2018 NED - On Herceptin only 2019 NED - On Herceptin only 2020 NED - On Herceptin only 2021 NED - On Herceptin only

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