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Chelee · 06-22-2006, 12:33 AM

Hi Mary, I just wrote you a reply...hit some button and WHAM...it was gone! I hate when that happens. ARGH.

I will try again. lol I am sure you can certainly understand my concern at missing a month of chemo since you ended up missing seven weeks. Wow...you must of been stressed at that time. But at LEAST your oncologist sounds GOOD because he/she went ahead and followed up with four dose dense cycles to get the little buggers.

You had that AC...that is some nasty stuff from what I have heard. It must really do that job. I don't like chemo of course...but I wish they would of used that on me with my stage IIIA, her2/neu 3+++. But for SOME reason they just decided to use the herceptin, taxotere, & carb.

O'well...nothing I can do about it now. But with my aggressive cancer...you sure think they would of attacked it harder...especially since they only got me through ONE full cycle before he landed me in the hospital and made me miss a month of chemo. Then to start back up after a month of down time...I feel like I only had 5 cycles since my body had a month to recover.

How I wish I knew back then...what I know now. But I can't go back and change a thing. I trusted them! I was told my case was presented to a cancer board and my best interest was what they all wanted. I am really beginning to wonder sad as that is.

I have a year of herceptin like you do. Thats where I am at now. Of course I have to have a echo soon to make sure the heart is doing ok. It was last time...so hopefully that will stay up there enough. I don't need to miss anything else at this point. Then on to rads soon if all goes as planned?

Thanks so much Mary for your reply.

Chelee

06-22-2006, 12:33 AM	#4
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Hi Mary, I just wrote you a reply...hit some button and WHAM...it was gone! I hate when that happens. ARGH. I will try again. lol I am sure you can certainly understand my concern at missing a month of chemo since you ended up missing seven weeks. Wow...you must of been stressed at that time. But at LEAST your oncologist sounds GOOD because he/she went ahead and followed up with four dose dense cycles to get the little buggers. You had that AC...that is some nasty stuff from what I have heard. It must really do that job. I don't like chemo of course...but I wish they would of used that on me with my stage IIIA, her2/neu 3+++. But for SOME reason they just decided to use the herceptin, taxotere, & carb. O'well...nothing I can do about it now. But with my aggressive cancer...you sure think they would of attacked it harder...especially since they only got me through ONE full cycle before he landed me in the hospital and made me miss a month of chemo. Then to start back up after a month of down time...I feel like I only had 5 cycles since my body had a month to recover. How I wish I knew back then...what I know now. But I can't go back and change a thing. I trusted them! I was told my case was presented to a cancer board and my best interest was what they all wanted. I am really beginning to wonder sad as that is. I have a year of herceptin like you do. Thats where I am at now. Of course I have to have a echo soon to make sure the heart is doing ok. It was last time...so hopefully that will stay up there enough. I don't need to miss anything else at this point. Then on to rads soon if all goes as planned? Thanks so much Mary for your reply. Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.