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Mandamoo · 06-13-2013, 01:47 AM

Do all of us have CD47 on our cancer cells - could this be why some are resistant to herceptin from the start? It is something I don't understand and I guess it is very complex. When you have never responded to hercepting despit being highly her2 positive you have to wonder why?

If my current treatment stops working my onc wants to quit her2 therapies all together - partially because I will need to start funding them (at $60000) a year and I have never shown much benefit from them she feels the cost is perhaps unjustified. There seems to be so little for those of us for who herceptin is ineffective.

06-13-2013, 01:47 AM	#3
Mandamoo Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 432	Re: way to make herceptin much more effective IDd Do all of us have CD47 on our cancer cells - could this be why some are resistant to herceptin from the start? It is something I don't understand and I guess it is very complex. When you have never responded to hercepting despit being highly her2 positive you have to wonder why? If my current treatment stops working my onc wants to quit her2 therapies all together - partially because I will need to start funding them (at $60000) a year and I have never shown much benefit from them she feels the cost is perhaps unjustified. There seems to be so little for those of us for who herceptin is ineffective.