Progressed on Tykerb, now Taxotere/Herceptin
Hi, Just wanted to update my treatment regime. I had MRSA in early Feb 08 and dropped Xeloda to help me recover. I went to Venice and environs 3 weeks later and while I was away i started to get a bit breathless. I thought that the cancer was probably coming back, so when I came home I had a CT scan (NED) and decided that I wouldn't go back on Xeloda as I felt the cancer had resurfaced and i wanted to 'save' Xeloda for a good run. Meanwhile the MRSA had resurfaced. My breathing/coughing was laboured and 5 weeks after my previous scan I rescanned. I had a moderate pleural effusion. My GP said that she thought there may have been some pleural effusion as a reaction to the MRSA (it had happened last time)and gave me antibiotics. However, my oncologist pooh-hooed the whole idea and put me on Taxotere/Hrceptin. I can't imagine that the cancer had moved so fast in my lungs when it hasn't previously. Any one got any advice, I am feeling at my wit's end to try and work out my best solution.
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diagnosed June 03. Rt sided Inflammatory BC in rt lower quadrant. 7cm tumour. Also 3 DCIS. 3 rounds of EC, mastectomy with axillary clearance (12 nodes+ of 19). 1 more EC. 5 weeks of rads, with weekly booster to attack skin lymph involvement. 4 cycles of Taxol. Tamoxifen.Recurrence December 04, Herceptin started early Jan05,+ Arimidex.
NED 26 mths. Recurrence early Mar07. Taxol added to Herceptin. NED. Will have total of 6 cycles, then Aromisan and Herceptin. Early Oct 07, recurrence to the pesky right upper lobe, with some pleural thickening upper rt hemithorax. T/X now the treatment. May 2008, Taxatere and Herceptin for lung recurrence
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