Re: "The Making of Herceptin" and skin mets
 

Can someone help?

Lolly has been on my mind and my copy of the book was loaned out . I am recalling someone in that book that treated skin mets successfully with an injection straight into the mets. I know the book is dated at this point, but the treatment was something not standardly used for breast cancer skin mets, and I don't know if it's something that has been further explored or not.

SOMEONE out there please help. Thanks!!

TRS

haven't read the book but have heard Dr Slamon and Dr Pegram lecture
 

I seem to remember pictures of both herceptin melting skin mets and/or the combination of herceptin and avastin doing so. These were slides used to show great results, not necessarily what happened to every patient.

Will be attending several conferences soon--will tune up my eyes and ears.

Lani, was that local injections or regular Herceptin infusion? In the book the woman I was thinking of WANTED to try Herceptin injection into the skin mets but couldn't get approval, so ended up doing something entirely different.

TRS

it was
 

regular infusions