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The book
When I was first dx and had not yet found this website, I stumbled on the book "The Making of Herceptin," which was basically lying around my onc's office with a bunch of Reader's Digests. I have to warn newbies, that reading that book as your first introduction to being Her positive can be terrifying! In an attempt to make the book read like a thriller, it uses overly dramatic language (I still remember "graveyards of women") and focuses on women with the most treatment resistant disease.
I agree that for a old hand, that book is really interesting (especially the history of the funding for Herceptin research -- thank you, Revlon and others in LA!) but at the time, it threw me into a major panic.
Meanwhile, my doc just kept telling me about the women she was treating with herceptin and how they were not recurring. Not one. She reminds me of that every time I see her.
Linda
Stage 3a
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