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when did you 'break up' with your onco?
hi all - this week it has been 7 years since i finished rads (although i still had herceptin until october 2010). last year my onco told me we could "break up" if i wanted. i wasn't really so keen on the idea. i was wondering when people who are said to be cancer-free stop going to their onco once a year and return to just yearlies with their gyno and mammograms? i had some odd-shaped little micro-calcifications in the fall for which i had a needle core biopsy (ouch) but they were benign. i have a six month mammo re-check in june. i didn't want to be a baby and hang on to my onco but wondered when others felt secure enough to let go? i seemed to remember that her2+ recurred within 8 yrs usually if it was going to.... is that true? thank you! valerie
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8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast
10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin.
1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010.
2/10 began 7 wks of radiation
6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer
8/10 got my last remaining ovary out
10/10 mammogram all clear
3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US
needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew!
7/10 switched to Arimidex
8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex
Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin
Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much.
back on Tamoxifen 1/2013.
blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen
tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer.
cancer's screwing with another man i love
2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!
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