Intrathecal (IT) Herceptin (Trastuzumab) for brain mets (Leptomeningeal Metastases)

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Some were started at the lower dose without any hope of that dose escalating. My daughter was selected to stay on the lower dose and continuing that dose throughtout. That is the main reason we sought out another source to allow excalation of the dose.

This is a very diffucult business as we know the timetable for Leptomenigeal cancer is short if the dose is not adequate.

We are bit discouraged right now since the last two spinal cytology showed atypical cells again. A lot of treatments, MRIs and traveling to appointments taking up most of her life without mesurable change and improvement in the MRI views of the cancer cells in the spinal cord.

It is a great positive though that the physician has finally gone to 60 mg.

We need some good news right now though, and signs of some reduction of the cancer cells.

Ev