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Re: Just started Herceptin, worried about effects on heart.
Jean, I feel the same way. I have been off Herceptin 3 years last Oct. It was my security blanket. When I read messages about others who have had recurrences I just wish I still taking it. I see my onc in April and we will be doing ct's and brain mri. I have a wonderful onc and I have complete faith in him. I am going to ask him about doing some maintenance chemo. He and Dr Slamon do not feel my cancer will come back as it had never spread anywhere other than my mastectomy site. You never get over that "fear". Mary L
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Mary L from PA Diag: Oct 2003 w/6mm mass, IDC grade III ductal carcinoma in-situ, IBC stage IIIB. tx A/C followed by Taxotere(only able to have 2 tx, allergic), mastectomy, 3 0ut of 7 positive nodes. 35 rads. Recurrence 9 months later, skin mets to mastectomy site. Tx Carboplatin/Herceptin. Stayed on Herceptin almost 5 years, had 3 more recurrences when I had to stop Herceptin due to my ejection fraction getting too low. Herceptin stopped and ned 3 years in Oct. 2010.
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