Dear Linda,
Hi there, just read your message about the trial. I just wanted to let you know that I was also almost put into the GW trial. I was not allowed in because I had just had three rounds of rads. I had to be rad free for four weeks in order to make the cut. They didn't want to let me wait out the four weeks without any chemo, they feared the cancer would just take over. So, they kept me on my Herceptin (even though I had mets while on it with Carbo, and taxal) and they also put me on Xeloda. I had done six other chemos before I got the Xeloda and none of them worked. While on the Xeloda I had extreme tumor shrinkage to the point of them not being visible anymore and they can no longer see the cancer in my chest wall either. If you don't get the arm that you want, go with your gut feeling and do what it right for you. I hope this helps a little. I wanted to be in that study so bad, but I thank God for my Xeloda. I have now been doing my herceptin and xeloda since about Feb or March and from what they tell me, they will keep me on it for as long as it's keeping the cancer at bay.
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