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Lani · 09-17-2008, 09:00 PM

available which have been shown to be effective even with metastatic disease

Look at all the ladies here who are 4,6,8 even 11 years out from Stage IV diagnosis

It makes sense to avail yourself/your mother of all the treatments which have proven to be effective before spending precious time/money on those without a proven track-record.

Where is your mother located? I believe Joe started a section on this website where people list their WONDERFUL oncologists and I am sure if you asked, many would happily recommend theirs.

Some have specialized just in her2+ breast cancer eg, Drs. Slamon and Pegram, other ran the herceptin No. American trials, eg Edith Perez, many here have oncologists they believe to have excellent judgement and a humane outlook.

I can say that at all the breast cancer meetings I attended in the last 4 or yearslast (and I attended 7 MAJOR meetings during the last year including the annual AACR, ASCO, ERA of Hope, and others) that I have never heard a speaker give a presentation about breast cancer or seen a poster exhibited by someone about breast cancer from that group of hospitals . So if they are doing something special and wonderful, they sure aren't sharing it with their colleagues/the scientific community(or am I missing something?)

09-17-2008, 09:00 PM	#2
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,783	if your mom is indeed her2 + there are a lot of treatments available which have been shown to be effective even with metastatic disease Look at all the ladies here who are 4,6,8 even 11 years out from Stage IV diagnosis It makes sense to avail yourself/your mother of all the treatments which have proven to be effective before spending precious time/money on those without a proven track-record. Where is your mother located? I believe Joe started a section on this website where people list their WONDERFUL oncologists and I am sure if you asked, many would happily recommend theirs. Some have specialized just in her2+ breast cancer eg, Drs. Slamon and Pegram, other ran the herceptin No. American trials, eg Edith Perez, many here have oncologists they believe to have excellent judgement and a humane outlook. I can say that at all the breast cancer meetings I attended in the last 4 or yearslast (and I attended 7 MAJOR meetings during the last year including the annual AACR, ASCO, ERA of Hope, and others) that I have never heard a speaker give a presentation about breast cancer or seen a poster exhibited by someone about breast cancer from that group of hospitals . So if they are doing something special and wonderful, they sure aren't sharing it with their colleagues/the scientific community(or am I missing something?)