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Nicola,
I have a newly daignosed brain met and I am going to be treated with CyberKnife. My brain met is only 5mm so it is very small. You may want to do some research on CyberKnife, it's the newest technology but unfortunately is not available at all cancer centers. The good thing with CyberKnife you can contnue on your regular chemo while undergoing CyberKnife and cyberknife is accurate to within a mm. If you don't have many brain mets CyberKnife may be your ticket. I was under the impression that if you had WBR you could have it only once -- or maybe it does depend upon the dosage. I'm new to the brain thing as you can see.
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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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