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Re: Treatment Question
greg, lots of good feedback, throwing lots of stuff at you, but , meant to be helpful. Chrisys point about statistics is right on,. In fact, when first dx, Lorraine did not want to know what stage she was, saying " I am not a statistic ". And it is true !
after reading all above, I still say go get tx at a research hospital, take tyk/xel and go .
We were in the suburbs at dx. , saw anice guy, but he was ageneralist , tx'ed many types of cancer, had trained at Farber, " talked " w/ farber all the time. But he wanted to be conservative, hold back on chemo. We just knew in our gut that this was an aggressive cancer, and went to MGH for second opinion. Our onc., was aggressive, and went for aggr. tx, which was taxotere, adria, cytoxan, w/ herceptin following. Scans every 3 months . 9 months ( NED) later liver met back, right to herc./ navelbine.9 months (NED) later, liver ablation to one tumor, herc / gemzar for 18 months of NED, tyk/xel , etc. to t dm-1.
Going to MGH flat out saved Lorraines life, and t dm-1 saved it again !
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