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CLTann, you are not completely alone. I am also Stage I, ER+ PR+ Her2+++ and did not do chemotherapy. I had a lumpectomy and did radiation (33 treatments) with Herceptin every 3 weeks. I am to stay on Herceptin for a year, and have started Femara. My onc is in private practice and is willing to dispense Herceptin off-label. It's funny, I have never been a risk taker in my life, but I couldn't see the trade off in benefit vs. toxicity and quality of life from chemotherapy. I have been fascinated reading about some of the treatments for more advanced disease, where metronomic chemotherapy has been used - lower doses, less toxic, and surprisingly sucessful. If such an approach was available for early stage bc, it would certainly have made me reconsider.
Hopeful
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