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Thank you everyone for your words of encouragement.
Alice, it was determined to be lung mets via the amount of uptake in the nodes. No biopsy is scheduled at this time - thank God, as I understand that's not too comfortable a thing.
The "big guns" as my oncologist put it refers to the Tykerb, Xeloda combo. Hopefully I won't need them.
I'm just hoping that Taxol will be esier on me than the Taxatore!
But, whatever the side effects I'm ready for the fight!
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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