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My doc told me that just because I am her2+ doesn't mean I will have a recurrence. He said that it was more aggressive, but not that much more. I am 43, Stage 2b, grade 3, one node +, and he said that I have about a 70-75% chance of it not coming back. He said with Herceptin it may be more. I was only able to take Herceptin 5 months out of 12 (on trial), due to heart problems. He told me that I could have had enough Herceptin to do the trick because they just don't know how long is long enough to take Herceptin. He also told me that it was most beneficial to me when I took it along with Taxotere.
Like one of the other girls said, I am just going to live my life and not worry about recurrence because it will consume me and that's no way to live. If it comes, I will deal with it at that time. Why worry about something that may not even happen. Worrying is not going to determine your fate.
All of us on this board are the pioneers of Her2+ and Herceptin. I hope we can prove that Herceptin does save lives and I hope that will happen before cancer takes another sister.
Health to All,
xoxo,
Shannon
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