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Old 02-23-2009, 04:49 PM   #3
Laurel
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Jean,

Are you asking whether there may be an option for us adjuvant patients to continue Herceptin for another year or more?

My onc. had said that she is expecting trials to begin where patients like us can continue Herceptin for 2 years. I will ask her about this when I see her in mid-March.
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Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara

15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....

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