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I don't mean to scare others, but my recurrence came 6 years later. I was having headaches for awhile and waited way too long to have them checked out. The mets were everywhere except the bones. After I started Herceptin in July, 04 my tumor markers were normal by the second or third treatment. My pet scan in March indicated no cancer except in the bones. I've been on Navelbine. I had at PET-CT scan yesterday. If all is well I will drop the Navelbine. If not, I will have to consider other options. I really wonder if my outcome would have been different had I been able to have Herceptin early on.
After six years I was feeling too safe, and the lesson for others is that we must question issues in our body that do not feel right and not wait to have them checked out.
Best wishes,
Barbara H.
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