[Sherryg683]

I am stage IV in remission for a year and have just been approved by my insurance and oncologist to start tykerb as a preventative approach. I received a phone call from Tykerb Cares and they said that my insurance covered it and I would soon be getting a phone call from a specialty pharmacy. I am not taking xeloda with it. I didn't discuss how long I would be on it with my Oncologist, that was just something I forgot, will discuss that with him this week but I am thinking around 6 months. He was of the opinion that he was not sure of it being beneficial to me at the moment but would do what I wanted. I cornered him on the issue of growing "immune" to it and that was it indeed not true that our bodies do not grow immune to theses chemos but that the cancer finds ways to mutate to get around them. He said this was indeed the case. So my theory was that I would not just get an immunity to tykerb from taking it and that if there was any cancer in my body, I'd just as soon attack it now than wait for it to come back, let it try to mutate around both herceptin and tykerb...seems to me much harder to do. I also am very concerned about protecting my brain or what little of it I have left...lol. It was something I thought long and hard on but am now confortable with my decision. I have to be here for a long time for my little girl so I want to be as agressive with it as possible...sherryg683