New Here with Her2 Questions
Moving this question to this board to see if any one can answer. This was on the Herceptin/Ty baord
# 1 Linda G.
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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New Here with Her2 Questions
This is my first post here after finding your site after watching the Lifetime movie Living Proof. I'm 60 and ER+, node negative. I was diagnosed and had bilateral mastectomy in 1999, CMF, and Tamoxifen 5 years. To date I'm NED. In a couple weeks I'm having a chest CT due to some on and off pain and since I've had no chest x-ray for 5 years my oncologist felt it would be wise and more thorough than just an xray.
My pathology said my HER2 status was "mildly positive." My full report is at home and I live out of town all summer so it's not handy to verify other details right now. What actually determines how Herceptin will work for a patient? Are there varying levels of Her2 positive? I've noticed some people say they are Her2+++ for example. I'm assuming the more positive you are the better the drug might work or is it some other score they look at? Sorry if I've posted this on the wrong forum.
Thanks,
Linda G.
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Vicki
Texas
Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 Age 48
MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5cm, and 6 cm (right side)
IDC (poorly differentiated infiltrating ductual carcinoma)
5+/16 nodes
Stage III A
Grade 3
ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++
Ki67 78%
Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense , 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)
28 Rad's ended October 13 2005
Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year
Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed incresed micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.
Brain MRI Feb.2006--All Clear
August 28, 2006 Last Weekly Herceptin.
October 2006--Colonoscopy, 6 Polyp's removed--all B9
PET Scan July 2007
Abdominal MRI Oct. 2007---2 Right Kidney Cysts
Core Biopsy-- Lump on Scar Line 1-10-08---B9
Brain MRI 6-2008--All Clear
PET/CT Scan 6-2008
Sept. 8 2008, 4CM area removed from mastectomy scar line. Proved to be B9.
PET/CT Scan-- July 2009 --All clear
August 17,2009 ---Had Port Removed
6 Years NED -- April 5,2011
DX'd with Melanoma left arm 10-10-2011
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