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Yes Joy, you are such a dork! I'm glad you saw the error of your ways and posted this GREAT thread out in the daylight where everyone could see!!!
You always make me smile even when you are making me cry. This post however, made me smile, laugh, cry, and shout for joy!!!!! People are very, very good. In fact, they're God's best things. I'm glad that so many rainbows are finding their way to you.
I reckon one of the newshounds will hunt down some studies for you.
I can share that in the talk I heard in San Antonio by Dr. Kent Osborne (utterer of the "c" word and of our "favorite study" - the one where you block all the pathways and the cancer dies and never comes back) he showed slides of those studies combining all the nibs and mabs and various suppression of estrogen, including oophrectomy.
The key is to close all the doors, and I think you have definitely closed a major door here.
Good gracious, that was one heckuva sentence. I'm just so afraid I'll end up like comma-less Flori that I'm economizing on the period key. Also, I'm showing my solidarity with my post-ooph hero by doing without periods whenever possible.
See Joy, you have made me giddy with delight over your wonderful roller coaster ride. Now who's a dork?
Much much love, my friend,
chris
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Chris in Scotts Valley
June 2002 extensive hi grade DCIS (pre-cancer-stage 0, clean sentinal node) Mastectomy/implant - no chemo, rads. "cured?"
9/2004 Diag: Stage IV extensive liver mets (!) ER/PR- Her2+++
10/04-3/05 Weekly Taxol/Carboplatin/Herceptin , complete response!
04/05 - 4/07 Herception every 3 wks, Continue NED
04/07 - recurrence to liver - 2 spots, starting tykerb/avastin trial
06/07 8/07 10/07 Scans show stable, continue on Tykerb/Avastin
01/08 Progression in liver
02/08 Begin (TDM1) trial
08/08 NED! It's Working! Continue on TDM1
02/09 Continue NED
02/10 Continue NED. 5/10 9/10 Scans NED 10/10 Scans NED
12/10 Scans not clear....4/11 Scans suggest progression 6/11 progression confirmed in liver
07/11 - 11/11 Herceptin/Xeloda -not working:(
12/11 Begin MM302 Phase I trial - bust:(
03/12 3rd times the charm? AKT trial
5/12 Scan shows reduction! 7/12 More reduction!!!!
8/12 Whoops...progression...trying for Perjeta/Herceptin (plus some more nasty chemo!)
9/12 Start Perjeta/Herceptin, chemo on hold due to infection/wound in leg, added on cycle 2 &3
11/12 Poops! progression in liver, Stop Perjeta/Taxo/Herc
11/12 Navelbine/Herce[ptin - try for a 3 cycles, no go.
2/13 Gemzar/Carbo/Herceptin - no go.
3/13 TACE procedure
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