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My story has been told before, Lani, but here it is again to add my info to your interesting thread. I have been both er and pr positive from the first time I was diagnosed in 1985. At that time I had double mastectomies and reconstruction, nothing else. In 1990 the cancer reoccurred in my T9 and T10 vertebra. I was put on tamoxifen and stayed on it for 5 years. The doctor then wrote on my last MRI report after the five years the words "healed metastatic breast cancer." I took that literally and never expected to have cancer again. Then, as I have said before, in June of 2004 I had a heart attack and in preparing for heart surgery, a CT scan found cancer mets in my lungs. This time it was her2, still er and pr positve. I have been on femara since, with 6 months of navelbine and herceptin, then 9 more of herceptin, until my EF dropped to 30% and I had to stop the herceptin. I am now NED, on femara only (with Zometa) and doing well. I should add that I was 56 at the time of the first DX and postmenopausel. I will watch your new thread with interest! Thank you for starting it. I hope you get a lot of response. Hugs, Tricia
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