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My mother was treated with adramycin in the late 1980's for her breast cancer, I do not know if she was her2 pos. as they didn't know anything about it back then. She took adramycin on 2 different occasions about 5 years apart. The year before she died she had heart valve damage due to the adramycin. I was treated with A/C at the beginning of my treatement and now will be finishing up on the herceptin next week. My echos have shown my ejection fractions to stay in the low 60's. On the last echo though there was some mild valve deterioration. Wish I had thought about this before treatment, that being said though I walk 4-7 miles every day to keep my heart in shape I do believe this helps. I think treatment will be alot different for those newly diagnosised
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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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