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I have read many posts lately and i felt it easier to ask a new question than to go back and find all the women who fit this description.
I'd like to hear from the women who have had non-metastisized tumors and are receiving Herceptin for a longer time period (one year or whatever it may be) after all their other treatments are finished (surgery, chemo, radiation).
If you fit this description, can you tell me:
1. Where you are and the name of your doctor
2. What data was used to support this decision (articles, studies, etc.)
3. Any other helpful info that I can use to finalize my case to get Herceptin for a year.
I received Herceptin with Taxol & Carboplatin for three months before my mastectomy and three months after. I am now in the middle of six weeks of radiation. Since my tumor was large, I had node involvement, and I am ER/PR negative, I feel strongly that Herceptin is my only option. The odds are around 95% that some of my cancer cells left my breast and node area.
I also am pre-menopausal and don't have the correct HLA typing to get into one of the vaccine trials, at least right now.
thanks!
Val
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