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I know
how much it stinks to lose those features as they really do define a face so much. It isn't even vanity it is, as you said, normalcy. And it is like rubbing salt in a wound to have to deal with these things. I have lost eyebrows and lashes a few times and I have to say that after taxol/carbo my lashes came in so beautifully-I was thrilled they are even better than before and only cost thousands of dollars! It took awhile and my eyebrows are just coming back after 8 months of taxol/carbo followed by about 7 or 8 months of navelbine (all with herceptin). And now on tykerb/xeloda I'm enjoying my hair, lashes, and brows. My point is they all come back and you will so appreciate these little but important things forever.
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with love and gratitude,
joy
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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