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evlin75 · 03-04-2013, 02:02 PM

Hi Paul,
We sure did not want to go to this, but the doctor said it had increased along the spine all the way plus extra growths in the lumbar, thorax and several in the cerebellum. He said he was afraid it was going fast enough that it might get past his ability to handle it.
Hopefully we can keep adding the Herceptin and increase the herceptin as the doses of depocyt get further apart.
He said the herceptin with the topotecan was not working.
Thanks for the input.
Ev

03-04-2013, 02:02 PM	#130
evlin75 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 118	Re: Intrathecal (IT) Herceptin (Trastuzumab) for brain mets (Leptomeningeal Metastase Hi Paul, We sure did not want to go to this, but the doctor said it had increased along the spine all the way plus extra growths in the lumbar, thorax and several in the cerebellum. He said he was afraid it was going fast enough that it might get past his ability to handle it. Hopefully we can keep adding the Herceptin and increase the herceptin as the doses of depocyt get further apart. He said the herceptin with the topotecan was not working. Thanks for the input. Ev