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Good to know!
I start the Tykerb/Xeloda combination within the next 10 days or so and will be taking it as instructed by my oncologist - without food. Thanks for the info!
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DX at age 37 on 5/24/05 Left breast IDC and DCIS, high-grade
modified radical skin-sparing mastectomy 7/11/05 with re-con TRAM flap.
tumor size 3.5 cm
HER2 To CEP-17 Ratio = 6.76 positive ER positive
A & C infusions Aug. - Oct. 2005
Taxol & Herceptin infusions Oct. - Dec. 2005
6 weeks radiation completed March 2006
Continued on Herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/24/06
re-occurence left side supraclavicular nodes Jan. 2007
HKI-272 phase 2 Trial Jan. - July 2007 (supra nodes shrunk for awhile)
Enlarged node in chest wall near windpipe.
started Tykerb/Xeloda 8/22/07 (on for 2 months - not working - 3 new liver mets).
11/07 Neupogen(G-CSF)/Herceptin/Navelbine Trial 11/07
2/8/08 Catscan shows 1 of 3 liver mets went from 9 to 24mm.
2/29/08 Phase II trial of Ertumaxomab.
4/10/08 Catscan shows progression on liver mets and 2 new liver mets.
4/11/08 Started Taxotere/Herceptin.
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Hybrid Mode
