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The article was rather scary. My insurance has paid for most of my treatments. It took me 6 months of threating to get a lawyer before they finally started paying for my herceptin treatments, they did pay for the nulesta injections and anaresp injections when I was taking chemo. My onc's office wrote off what they didn't pay. I also had help with my co-pays from the patient avacocy program. Onc's office signed me up for that. It was a blessing as it paid for $2000 of co-pays. I don't know what the uninsured or underinsured do, as last year when all this started I had about $10,000 worth of medical bills I was responsible for.
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Debbie in North Carolina
Diag 10/2006-high grade invasive ductal carcinoma- mastectomy L breast
2.5 cm tumor ER/PR pos-Her2+++
4 rounds A/C, 4 rounds Taxol
Herceptin every 3 weeks until Jan. 2008
6/18/07 prophylatic mastectomy R breast
8/2007 started aromasin/stopped arimidex (side effects)
12/07 stopped aromasin due to side effects (now what?)
Finished herceptin 1/8/08
started tamoxifen for 2 years then will switch to femera
allergic to tamoxifen started femera 4/2008
June 20, 2008 portacath removed
Learnig to live life to the fullest!
Stopped Femera due to side effects
July 28, 2008 start trial for breast cancer vaccine
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