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Sherryg683 · 03-20-2007, 09:08 AM

Susan, I know they are using Tykerb with Hercepin in a trial right now. You have to be stage I or II but what I can read from it you can not have taken any other chemos to qualify. So I guess that's for those with active cancer. What I really want to know is also about preventative. I am really leaning towards telling my Oncologist to put me on Tykerb with my Herceptin to help keep it away. I just feel this cancer is so agressive that we have to be agressive in keeping it away. Since Tykerb is a pill, easy to take with little side effects, I am sure we will start seeing it being given as Herceptin is now..sherryg683

03-20-2007, 09:08 AM	#9
Sherryg683 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,014	Susan, I know they are using Tykerb with Hercepin in a trial right now. You have to be stage I or II but what I can read from it you can not have taken any other chemos to qualify. So I guess that's for those with active cancer. What I really want to know is also about preventative. I am really leaning towards telling my Oncologist to put me on Tykerb with my Herceptin to help keep it away. I just feel this cancer is so agressive that we have to be agressive in keeping it away. Since Tykerb is a pill, easy to take with little side effects, I am sure we will start seeing it being given as Herceptin is now..sherryg683 __________________ Sherry Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44 13+ positive lymph nodes Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006 4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin NED since April 2006!! 36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately 8 years NED now Scans every year Life is not about avoiding the thunderstorms, it's about learning to dance in the rain!