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Herceptin stopped
I was diagnosed with HER 2+ with 2 microscopic cells in sentinal node in 2006. I had 6 cycles of CAF chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Started 3 weekly infusions of Herceptin and then my oncologist bluntly told me that my heart function was deteriorating and Herceptin had to stop after only 7 infusions. I asked her if it could be started again if my heart improved after a rest and she flatly refused saying it wasn't worth the risk to my heart. I am pretty devastated. It feels like another blow after I had just began to recover from the initial shock of being diagnosed with BC. As you may have gathered I live in England and the treatment here seem to be very different from the USA.
Does anyone have any reassuring information about my chances with no more herceptin.
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