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Old 10-09-2007, 06:51 AM   #6
PinkGirl
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Talking remission/cure

Hi Faith
I have decided (just my opinion) that I'm going to die from something other than breast cancer, when I'm 100 years old, and just before I die I will raise my middle finger to breast cancer. That's my idea of "cure".

I also was compelled once to read my file. There was nothing in it that I didn't already know, but it upset me to read it anyway. I was reading a "drug sheet" about Herceptin and it said something about it being for a type of cancer that, before Herceptin, was considered to have a poor prognosis. I knew that, but it gave me a sinking feeling to read it. But there was no way I could have NOT read my file.

I'm happy for your "remission". Cure would be nice, and maybe with all the wonderful research that's going on, we will get to that. For now, "remission" is fantastic.
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Dx Aug/05 at age 51
2cm. Stage 2A, Grade 3
ER+/PR-
Her2 +++

Sept 7/05 Mastectomy
4 FAC, 4 Taxol, no radiation
1 year of Herceptin
Tamoxifen for approx. 4 months,
Arimidex for 5 years
Prophylactic mastectomy June 22/09



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