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Old 10-16-2007, 11:08 PM   #1
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Exclamation Living with Metastatic BC - Ask the Expert

BreastCancer.org is having an online Conference and I'm passing this information on to anyone who may be interested.

Upcoming Ask-the-Expert Online Conference: Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

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Join us Monday, October 22nd between 9:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time for our Ask-the-Expert Online Conference, "Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer." Guest speaker Larry Norton, M.D. and conference moderator Marisa Weiss, M.D. will answer your questions about managing day-to-day life with metastatic breast cancer.

Larry Norton, M.D. is Deputy Physician-in-Chief and director of breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In addition, Dr. Norton has served as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation since its beginning in 1993. Dr. Norton's research includes the study of breast cancer genes as well as targeting growth factor receptors as a way of slowing or shrinking tumors.

Our conference moderator will be Marisa Weiss, M.D., Founder and President of breastcancer.org. Dr. Weiss is a radiation oncologist specializing in breast cancer, and serves as Director of Breast Radiation Oncology at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pa. She is the author of "Living Beyond Breast Cancer." Dr. Weiss received the 2003 Professor of Survivorship Award from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and was selected as Doctor of the Year 2005 by Philadelphia Magazine.

Both Dr. Norton and Dr. Weiss are members of the breastcancer.org Professional Advisory Board, which you can read about here:

http://www.breastcancer.org<WBR>/about_us/pab/index.jsp

To join the conference on October 22nd, go to www.breastcancer.org any time between 9:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. EDT* and then click on the "Join Conference" button. No special software is required. A transcript of the conference will be posted on the site by October 29th.
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Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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Old 10-17-2007, 06:04 AM   #2
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Diag. 12/05 at age 60
Stage II, Grade 3, 4.5 cm primary tumor
ER/PR- Her2 +3 strongly positive
Her2 by FISH 7.7 amplified
vascular invasion
Ki67 20% borderline
Jan - March '06 Taxotere/Adriamycin X 3 to try to shrink tumor - it grew
April '06 Rt Modified Radical Mas, 7 of 9 nodes positive
April - Aug. '06 Herceptin/Taxol/Carboplatin X 8 (dose dense)
Sept - Dec. '06 Navelbine/Herceptin x 8 (dose dense)
Radiation & Herceptin Jan. 22 - March 1, 2007
Finished Herceptin Dec. 10 '08! One extra year.
Port removed August, 2012.
8 1/2 years since diagnosis! 5 1/2 Years NED!
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