On the way home from my last visit
I'm hanging out at the airport waiting for my last flight home from participating in the AE37/GP2 vaccine.
It is a bittersweet day. I will miss visiting my wonderful nurses, but I am happy I got to be in the trial.
Now it is back to real life and followup. I think the best part of this clinical trial is that I didn't have to wait it out after Herceptin, I got to do something active to help prevent cancer, and to advance cancer research.
I'm just one little person, but I got to participate in moving treatment beyond chemotherapy. And that ladies makes all the travel, itchies, headaches and fatigue totally worth it.
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Diagnosed 2007
Stage IIb Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Pagets, 3 of 15 positive nodes
Traditional Treatment: Mastectomy and Axillary Node Dissection followed by Taxotere, 6 treatments and 1 year of Herceptin, no radiation
Former Chemo Ninja "Takizi Zukuchiri"
Additional treatments:
GP2 vaccine, San Antonio Med Ctr
Prescriptive Exercise for Cancer Patients
ENERGY Study, UCSD La Jolla
Reconstruction: TRAM flap, partial loss, Revision
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