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Hi Nancy,
I'm so glad you asked this, and it's great reading everyone's condensed responses. I'm in Calif. and was diagnosed in Dec., 2003 with 1.5 cm. tumor, no nodes, and strong her2+++. Had a skin-sparing mastectomy in Jan., 2004 and lat-flap reconstruction along with FAC and then Taxol, Carboplatin and Herceptin weekly for 12 weeks (finished in Aug., 2004). I wish I'd been given it longer, but so far, so good.
Others who took it for less than a year: I do know a woman who is eight years out and had one pos. lymph node and she took Herceptin for 16 weeks. Another woman had eight pos. lymph nodes and took it for 16 weeks and has had no recurrence and that was four years ago. Both are er-. I was told by my onc. that Genetech set the one-year time frame when it came to the clinical trials, but word is still out as to whether it should be longer (two years) or shorter. If any of you have more information on this, I'd like to hear more on the topic. I'm really glad we've got each other!!
Vicki Z
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