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View Poll Results: Accuracy of HER2 testing
I was diagnosed before HER2 testing was commonly done/don't know if I was tested 1 2.27%
I was originally tested with IHC and later retested with FISH or CISH at a major cancer center 22 50.00%
I have been tested only with IHC, and the test was analyzed at a local cancer center 4 9.09%
I have been tested only with IHC, and the test was analyzed at a major cancer center 7 15.91%
I have only been tested with FISH or CISH 10 22.73%
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Old 12-13-2006, 07:14 PM   #2
janet/FL
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I had both tests, but don't know who examined them. IHC+++. I do know that when a sample was sent to Sloan Kettering, they could not retest the FISH. Whoever did it first, found it postive. 7.6, I think.
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Endometrial Cancer 2002
Mammogram 11/2004
Lumpectomy 12/2004
Stage 1, 9mm DCIS, grade 2, Her2+++, ER/PR negative
Refused A/C as recommened by two oncs.
35 treatments of radiation that ended March 4, 2005
Changed oncologists and began
Taxotere/Herceptin August 2005. Finished Herceptin July 2006
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