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Tumor Markers Down! with an old treatment!!!
Well, this 3rd recurrence has been a scary one. So when my oncologist decided to put me on a treatment I had when I was first dx stage 4, I was a little skeptical after he told me that I probably only had a 25% chance of it working... I initially asked him about trying it again because I did so well with it the first time. It made all the liver mets and bone mets disappear on pet within 3 months! The only thing that was changed was that he used Abraxane instead of Taxol, which is pretty much the same thing. So anyway, I started it at the beginning of January - my tumor marker was 136. After 1 month, it went to 129. So I wasn't sure if it was going to go up or down this month. But low and behold, it went to 78! I am so thrilled, just thought I would share it.
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Jan04: Bilateral Mastectomy at age 28
Initial DX: Left Breast: IDC 2cm, Grade 3, HER2+3, 0 Nodes +, ER/PR-. Right Breast: Extensive DCIS ER-/PR+; Stage 1-2a
Feb04-Apr04: 4 AC, dose dense
Aug 04: 4 Taxotere
Dec 05: Bone and Liver METS; Stage 4. Carboplatin/Taxol/Herceptin. DX with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Apr 06: NED, maintenance Herceptin
Apr 07: CA1503=14; masses in liver; Xeloda/Tykerb
Nov 07: NED, Tykerb maintenance
Sept 08: Liver mets again, on Tykerb/Xeloda again, CA=19 and 27
Nov 08: Progression, Tykerb/Gemzar, CA=25
Dec 08: Progression, Herceptin/Navelbine, CA=40, 57, and 130
Jan 09: Progression in bone, recession in liver, Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane CA=135
June 09: CA27/29=24, chemo break
Sept 09: Progression, CA=24, waiting on clinical trial (4 weeks no treatment)
Nov 09: now have brain mets, trial "on hold", getting 14 WBR treatments starting 11/2/09
Dec 09: possible start on p53 trial
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