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Drug therapy/what's been used/what's next
Jenny had her new port put in on Monday and slept most of the day yesterday. She is going in tomorrow for the herceptin treatment.
I found out that the first battle was fought with the "red devil" and cytox. That was followed up with radiation, then the surgery was performed. (modified mastectomy, with one positive node)
Next week she is to receive taxotere and cytoplasm (?)....I'm not sure of the spelling, she was reading to me over the phone.
As for a second opinion, she said she considered one but thinks she is in good hands. I made her promise me if this next round does not show some improvement, she will at least talk to someone else. She said she would. She has two concerns with this team of docs, 1) that they didn't perform the surgery before all the treatment and 2) they didn't believe for 3 weeks that the cancer had returned. She spoke with them in great length about these issues.
Basically, they thought she was having some issues due to the radiation treatment. The tumors started growing out of the scar tissue, that's when they believed it was the cancer returning. She says she gives them the benefit of the doubt because they truly had never seen it return so quickly.
They said that this time they are not so concerned about the liver/lung mets as they are about the 4 new tumors that appeared.
So that's where she is right now. She's bummed about losing all of her hair, and she's down about "losing her femininity".....she said for some reason that's bothering her more than the physical and emotional aspects of her cancer.
Any ideas about the prescribed treatment coming up and what to expect?
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