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StephN · 12-13-2010, 11:30 AM

Thanks for posting that one, Rich.
I visited that poster and brought home a reprint, but the researcher was not at that poster when I was. Would have loved to talk to them.

In case anyone does not understand what a "poster" is: At these scientific meetings studies are reduced to a large rectangular "poster" size presentation (approx 4 feet wide by 2 or 3 feet high) and put up on large cork board stands. These stands are lined up in rows with letter number IDs so we can find them from the listing in a booklet given out to attendees. There "poster sessions" in which the posters from a previous session come down and new ones go up. They try to put them in some order according to subject or type of study.

12-13-2010, 11:30 AM	#29
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: live from San Antonie SABCS! Thanks for posting that one, Rich. I visited that poster and brought home a reprint, but the researcher was not at that poster when I was. Would have loved to talk to them. In case anyone does not understand what a "poster" is: At these scientific meetings studies are reduced to a large rectangular "poster" size presentation (approx 4 feet wide by 2 or 3 feet high) and put up on large cork board stands. These stands are lined up in rows with letter number IDs so we can find them from the listing in a booklet given out to attendees. There "poster sessions" in which the posters from a previous session come down and new ones go up. They try to put them in some order according to subject or type of study. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.