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Old 12-03-2009, 09:52 PM   #1
bejuce
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New HER-2 Movie from Genentech

A friend of mine that works at Genentech told me that they just had a private screening of their new movie on HER-2 for the employees. This new movie is supposedly Genentech's side of the story on the development of Herceptin. Apparently, they were not that excited on the heavy emphasis on Dr. Slamon on the Living Proof movie.

I asked her about release dates for the general public, but she didn't know.

Joe/Christine, would there be a way to somehow get this movie out to us first? I'll ask my friend if she can point out someone at Genentech that I can talk to arrange a screening for HER-2+ patients on this site. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Marcia (bejuce)
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Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin


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Old 12-04-2009, 04:37 AM   #2
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Re: New HER-2 Movie from Genentech

At the AACR annual meeting in San Diego in 2008 the lifetime achievement honoree was Dr. Allan Ullrich, formerly of Genentech, now with the Max Planck Institute, whom most of the cancer researchers seemed to give credit to for the "invention of herceptin" , rather than Dr. Slamon.

His speech intimated that he thought her3 would end up being the key to treating her2+ breast cancer.
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