Hi there, radiation shifted a lot of my mets to lymph glands, so did Aromasin, I can't have Tamoxefin because I am not hormone responsive, and after what happened to a friend of mine I would be very wary of it anyway. She developed clots on her lungs which a long time to diagnmose and have been very hard to shift and are still there. I know some cancers are very agressive, mine was and I needed a truck load of chemo, and been on Herceptin for over 4 years and now I have mets to my remaining breast which has been there for 12 months now and doesn't seem to want to budge even after radiaiton and oral chemo, if the lumps under my arm are positive then I will try one of the later drugs Gemzar. I have a very flexible oncologist who asks me what I want to do next, it is a pain sometimes, I have to do a heap of research and I get most of my answers from the ladies on this board. Having breaks from Herceptin can restore your heart function, I was diagnosed in 98 and have been having non stop treatment ever since, I also have a mixed connective tissue disease, hashimotos thyroid, chronic heart failure in 3 valves, neuropothy, both shoulders damaged from falls and not caused by bone mets, so I have had a lot of dramas along this bumpy road, NED a few times but never long enough, attitude has a lot to do with recovery so hope this helps.
Love & Hugs Lyn
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