Hi Kris, one of the most important things in this fight is that you have to be completely comfortable with your oncologist, we have come up against many who are not aware of what is available, and therefore are not willing to toe the line when it comes to being told there are options. I was lucky I found one straight up, in 1998, he turned 40 last month so I got him young and trained him, now he is one of the best in Australia, he has told his stafff to give me what I want and when I want it, I am one of his best research tools because he treats all cancers and doesn't have enough hours in a day to know everything. Because being HER+ is still widely unknown, there is no real prediction available, he tells everyone I should have been dead years ago but just shakes his head at me and gives a heap of his other patients my combinations without the Herceptin, over the last 3 years there have only been 4 of us tested HER+ at my hospital. I am convinced that the Herceptin has either slowed down the growth of my BC or mutated the cells so they are not as agressive. It doesn't matter how many times questions are asked here, there is always someone new out their wanting to know the same answers. We have a great archives of true and trusted treatments with encouraging outcomes. It is nice to have you along.
Love & Hugs Lyn
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