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Eric, I'm so hoping for great news on the markers for your wife. I'll be thinking it all day. I'm glad you started this thread too. I have so far found this to be quite tolerable (still a little early) and was worried about efficacy. My skin is drier and itchier and my face had some weird red rashy dry spots, which are already getting better. I just started my 2nd round of xeloda yesterday so I have been on tykerb for 3 weeks. I know xeloda pretty well and can tell the side effects are accumulating a bit. But, compared to what I was expecting (and again it is early) this has been easy. I think I'm more fatigued though, is Caryn? That is the part that drives me crazy.
Anyway good wishes to you both and thank you!
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dx stage I 2/2000*er/pr+; her- per IHC*lumpectomy*4 rounds A/C*30 rads*tamoxifen*dx stage 4 5/2002*huge mets to liver*tiny mets to lungs*stopped tamoxifen*5/02 taxotere/xeloda*her 2 checked with FiSH-her2+++herceptin *2/03 stopped chemo femara w/herceptin*zolodex*04 switched to aromasin w/herceptin*05 high estrogen tx*11/05taxol/carbo*7/06 stopped chemo; megace/herceptin*9/06navelbine/herceptin*5/07tykerb/xeloda great response*4/08 progression in liver; ooph/ faslodex /herceptin
6/08 began Herceptin DM-1
9/08 progression
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