Lapatinib (Tykerb)

[michele u]

As we all know, the clinical trials have stopped with this oral med because it was working so well, and they are giving the drug to the people that didn't draw that arm of the trial(does this sound familiar? Herceptin) I think the future will follow that of Herceptins, that they will do a trial with early stage cancer's, to prevent recurrences (does this also sound familiar(tamoxifen) I'm stage 3b and i've already talked to my onc that if this is FDA approved that he will prescribe it for me to prevent a recurrance. He said YES! I might have to fight my insurance company to pay for it, but i will if it takes that. My arguement will be that stage 3 cancer is still metastatic cancer. I think alot of onc will accept this arguement also. We all might have to band together and see what happens!