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Old 03-08-2007, 08:36 AM   #6
tousled1
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Congratulations! I know what a great feeling it is to be finished with chemo. The hardest part is now over! Radiation will be a breeze. You will probably get tired and may have some skin problems toward the end of the rads. Make sure you take extra special care of the skin that will be radiated. My radiation oncologist gave me aloe vera to use starting my first day of rads. It helepd a lot. My last 5 treatments were boosts and that irritated my skin so the rad onc gave me a prescription for silvadene ceam. Used that for a few days and everything cleared up. A few weeks after rads were complete you couldn't even tell what side of my chest had radiation to it. I found that I got tired easily but I think that was just from going there everyday and sometimes after rads went straight for my Herceptin. Good luck to you!
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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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