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My situation is similar to yours. I was diag. Stage III in July 2002 and finished chemo in Jan. 2003. I discussed this with my onc. a couple of weeks ago and she also said there's no way of telling whether it would help us as there's been no studies done of people in our situation. But, there's also nothing saying it wouldn't help us.There's a big ASCO conference later this and she said she's sure there there'll be a lot of discussion about herceptin and others in our situation.
She did say she thought she'd probably give it to me if I wanted but wanted to see what was said at the conference first. So I'm going to call her after the conference to discuss but right now am leaning towards taking it if she'll give it to me. I never thought I'd be volunteering for chemo again, but being at high risk for recurrence, I feel like I need any edge I can get. I didn't think to ask about insurance though, so I'll also need to see if that will be an issue.
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