Dear Chandi,
Kudos to yourself and Gina for your ability to survive.
What you don't tell us in your post is if you have active mets. If you don't then that requires help beyond oncology however if you have mets (and you need to get tested to find out) then you need aggressive treatment! A very small percentage of patient's mets respond to herceptin (H) as a single therapy; however, there are so many clinical trials and other proven herceptin + chemo combinations that personally, if you were my wife, I would try H + chemo first. You had a bad reaction with Navelbine but that shouldn't preclude an attempt to try other chemo combinations; such as H. + avastin, one of the lapatinib trials, H + Abraxane (here is a link to the study:
http://www.breastcancer.org/r_0502d.html ), etc.
Here is a link to the multitude of combinations available to you;
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Treatments/C...binationregimes
Gina, I would love to hear more about your background as you have a very unique percpective into this disease and its treatment. Are you a research professional, an oncologist, naturopathic or homopathic dr., ??? I ask because I like to think outside the box and appreciate others who do as well. You mentioned consulting to other B.C. patients, your research, helping people for free; that being said, you have to establish credibility before you can expect acceptance.
Again, please tell us about yourself because if what you say is true, we need to further investigate. Keep in mind that diffent patients respond to different treatments.
Al