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Re: important-- turning her2+ Stage IV into chronic treatable disease
Two things from this article stuck out to me:
1. "Highly lethal form of breast cancer"
2. "Resistance to treatment (herceptin) within a year" - do any of you find this to be true? I asked my oncologist to put me on perjeta along herceptin, but she won't add perjeta because she said something about resistance. I don't have systemic disease(per scans) but do have shrinking brain mets. I asked to get herceptin to help keep my body clear. Should I even do this? Should I be concerned about herceptin resistance?
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June 2013 DX Stage 3 Idc, rt breast, er/pr-, her2+++
PET/CT/Brain MRI clear
ACTHP until Dec 2013
BMX Dec 2013
28 Rads Feb 2014
Exchange surgery June 2014
Herceptin end Sept 2014
Headaches start Oct 2014
CT body clear Nov 2014
Brain MRI 4 lesions Nov 2014
SRS via LINAC in Dec 2014
Rt side infection, hospitalized, lost right implant on Jan 1, 2015
Jan 14 2015 MRI brain lesions shrinking
Jan 27 2015 Re-start herceptin every 3 weeks
Feb 2015 CT/PET Body clear
Re-start Lymphedema treatment April 2015
Breast MRI clear April 2015
Brain MRI April 2015 - shows everything stable, nothing new (whew)
CT scan June 2015 - clear
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