Clinical Trial for newly diagnosed -any others?
I'm looking for anyone who did the clinical trial I did for newly diagnosed women with HER2 - Herceptin/Tykerb.
The purpose of my trial was to see if this combo would shrink tumors. The trial lasted for 3 months and was weekly Herceptin and 4 Tykerb daily. I know I was the first patient at Vanderbilt to do this trial but I understand Baylor University has the most. The benefits of this trial could be to avoid a mastectomy which was not the case for me but was told that at the beginning. The other benefit could be to avoid chemo. I agreed to do the trial but only if I could receive chemo. I was not as well informed about HER2 as am I now and made this decision because the trial was so new and there was no long term information on what the impact could be of foregoing chemo. In addition, I have a friend who's father is a surgeon at a reputable hospital in another state. I faxed all the information on the trial and he consulted with breast cancer specialists there and that was the advice he would give his own daughter so that is what I went with. I was so overwhelmed I just wanted someone to tell me what to do. I don't know if that was the right choice but I'm not going to second guess myself at this point. I see a lot of posts regarding this combo with mets but was curious as to if there are any of you who did the same trial I did. If so, --When did you complete the trial? --What were your results? --How are you doing? --Did you receive chemo or did you do the Herceptin/Tykerb only? Thanks so much. |
Re: Clinical Trial for newly diagnosed -any others?
Bumping this one up.
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Re: Clinical Trial for newly diagnosed -any others?
I started altto trial[ diff combinations of tykerb+herceptin as first line tx after diagnosis] may 09 after r mast 2-10-09. For the trail you do chemo first then you're combo draw. I drew tykerb 1500mg dly for 1 year. So far results unknown. Anyone else out there on trial or with any results? Best Cec!!
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Clinical Trial for newly diagnosed any others
hello to all of you had new on the clinical trial of dr huang on the combination of cells Schwann OEG? guerdener
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I did the Altto trial after chemo and mastectomy. Got tyverb only for 1 yr. Cancer came back as soon as I stopped tyverb. Really wish I had had herceptin instead.
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I'm currently in arm 4 of the ALTTO trial which means taxotere, caroboplatin, & herceptin taken with Tykerb (3pills / 750mg) daily.
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