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03-10-2007, 11:12 AM
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When is radiation scheduled after surgery
Trying to plan for our move to Denver and scheduling radiation in our new location. Can anyone please tell me how many weeks you usaully go after surgery before you start? Also, do you keep getting Herceptin during radiation.
Thank you agian for all your help.
Emelie
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03-10-2007, 11:29 AM
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Location: Stockton, NJ
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Radiation typically starts 3-4 weeks after surgery (or chemo depending on one's circumstances). It can start even alittle later. Rule of thumb average is one month. Herceptin continues through rads.
Best of luck with treatment and your move.
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Kind regards
Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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03-10-2007, 11:31 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Colorado
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Moving to Denver...
...I am right up the road near Boulder. Need anything?
Love and Light
Mel
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03-10-2007, 11:43 AM
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Thank you for responding to my constant inquiries! This information will help with the scheduling of all this. My husband will be starting with a new company, so all of this needs to be orchastrated around that. Sure keeps me on my toes.
Mel, I will definitely look you up when we get there. Has Spring sprung your way yet?
Thanks again,
Emelie
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03-10-2007, 12:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Colorado
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I hear birds chirping as I type...
We did have an unusually hard winter this year - we had 38 inches of snow, followed by 19, followed by 17, followed by 12... It went on for weeks - but right now ALL the snow around my house is gone and the crocus, tulips, and hyacynths are all blooming and the birds are singing. WooHoo! Yep - spring has sprung!!! You're gonna love it here ( but try not to tell too many people how great it is out here - enough move in every day  )
Love and Light
Mel
PS - who is hubby going to work for - if it is OK to ask?
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03-10-2007, 08:53 PM
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Location: Alexandria, VA
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Yes I did do left side rads during Herceptin. I'm sure there is a window for when rads are most effective. 12 weeks is ringing a bell, but you'll have to keep searching. If you do chemo, you don't get rads for 6 months or so.
Glad it's spring somewhere. My daffy's were weighed down by snow last week. Crocus are unusually late. It will get here though. BB
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03-11-2007, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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The timing of my radiation may be a bit different since I finished chemo in Jan 06 and finished Herceptin in 07. I have a local recurrence so will start rads about 2 weeks after surgery. I'm having a wide excision (had mastectomy in 05), so perhaps that's why they're only giving me 2 weeks between surgery & rads.
- Anna
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Stage I - DX 9/2005 ER/PR-, HER2+, grade 3, DCIS, IDC multi-focal (1.05cm)
DD 4 A/C finished Jan 31, 2006
Herceptin weekly finished Jan 31, 2007
recurrence to chest wall on last month of Herceptin
Stage 3B - 3/15/07 - 2 carcinomas in dermal lymphatic
Rads finished 6/5/07
12x TH finished 9/10/07
12/07 - Clear scan!
3/08 - 4 month Melatonin trial
1/09 - osteoperosis - start Alendronate
2/09 - 4-month Simivastin trial
3/13 - take drug holiday after 5 years of Alendronate
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03-11-2007, 09:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Acworth, GA
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I started radiation (x35 last 5 were boosts) about 6 weeks after my surgery. I did however start Herceptin two weeks after my surgery and continued with the Herceptin during radiaiton. I believe the reason I had to wait the 6 weeks was because I couldn't get my arms up over my head and I was getting radiation to the chest and entire axillary area.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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