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Heidi,
You're doing fine posting and are not cluttering up the forum. I can't give you first hand information about the auto-immune system and chemo but, I can tell you that when I went through my chemo my blood counts, both red blood cells and white, went through the floor. I had to get Procrit shots to bring up the red blood cell count and Neulasta shots to bring up the white blood cell counts. So I guess you could say that my immune system was really lowered during chemo. All the best to you.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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