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Robin
Did you arrange for your sample to be sent or did you have to have your onco do it? Did your insurance cover this or did you have to pay out of pocket? If you paid (or know the cost), could you share that.
I know how to get slides sent as I had my slides sent elsewhere for second opinions (when I was first diagnosed) so I know the onco doesn't have to "approve" it or anything.
Just wondering as I am always toying with getting Pten, Top IIA and Her1 testing on my tumor. However, since I have had a year of Herceptin (with 5 more to take me to 2 yrs past diagnosis), I do not know if I need the information now that I have had Herceptin and the typical 4 dd A/C and 4 dd taxol treatments.
Maybe, for me, ignorance is bliss because what if I am Pten negative, Top IIA negative and highly Her1 positive? It does not mean I will recur but I will worry that I will and in an adjuvant setting, there is nothing else I can do. I have done everything in the adjuvant setting that I can (I think you know what I mean).
Kind regards
Becky
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