[Brian]

Dear Group Members:

I thought I would give you all a little news that may be encouraging for you. My wife, Lisa, had scans last week, brain MRI, CT Neck to Knees, and they were clean. This significance of this is that she is now a 15 year survivor, a 5 year survivor of a Stage IV recurrance and a two year survivor of a stroke and recurrance in 2005.
So far she has been through a great deal and suffers at this point from frequent nausea and the other side effects of herceptin, but the good news is that she is fine.
Hers is a long story which includes a vaccine treatment at the University of Washington which failed, but for now the weekly doses of Herceptin which she has received for the past 5 years seem to be doing the trick. We have Tykerb waiting in the wings and with luck we can keep this stuff at bay for a long time.
Our second daughter will be married this fall and we will be grandparents for the first time this fall. Truly God has been watching over us.
We hope that this story of survival gives hope and courage to all women suffering from this gastly disease.

Good Luck and God Bless!
Lisa and Brian