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elderly her-2neu positive
My 82-year-old mother has been diagnosed as stage one, grade two, HER-2neu positive, no lymph node involvement, 1.5 cm original tumour. She is in otherwise excellent health. She's had a lumpectomy and now her oncologist has reccommended FEC-50 chemo (six cycles), followed by radiation and Herceptin for a year. He said studies have been only up to age 75, if that, and that data aren't available on 10-year survival rates for my mother's age group. But data on younger women show markedly increased survival rates using the recommended protocol. The good news, he said, is that she's in good health otherwise and is lymph-node negative.
I'd appreciate hearing from anybody in my mother's, or a similar, situation. Thank you.
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