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Sheila - I am betting that she did stop by our booth - but we didn't know it. I believe she is hoping to retain her "incognito" status.

Flori and all - I think I tuned in to much of the info that Lani is talking about at SABCS, and I too wait with baited breath for her distillation of the very powerful developments and research regarding HER2. There are some very elegant researchers working on breaking the code of our particular subset of the disease. There was so much that I found to be over the moon optimistic about, but I have no idea how to translate it accurately. All I know is that I heard two researchers use the phrase "on path to potential cure" and I know that they didn't say it lightly. Those are strong words to use in such a setting. But they are breaking the complex code and network of HER1, 2, 3, 4 and the synergy and escape hatches that those genes/proteins have heretofore used to proliferate. There are some very smart theories out there and we as patients in the immediate might be able to offer something that can contribute greatly to advancing those theories. It would be generous of us to give Lani a moment to catch her breath to congeal the info she acquired, so that she can present it to us in an understandable way. For her to be there acting on our behalf so directly with the researchers is a generousity that I can hardly wrap my mind around... All I can think to say is, THANK YOU Lani. (I actually smiled at her attempt at ironic humor due to her exhaustion. I knew exactly what she meant... that she knew it might be a little cruel to have only the energy to post a small taster of the info she acquired, for those of us waiting with baited breath - but she was excited and wanted everyone to know that there is much to be excited about and that she has every intention to post the nitty gritty details at her very earliest opportunity. It was not malicious, just a stab at gently irony.)