Tykerb/ herception in stage 3a locally advanced patients

[Nancy L]

I am stage IV and have been on this combo now for 20 mos. I recently had a Pet Scan and am still NED. It took about 9 mos on the combo before the tumor didn't show on the PET. Dr. Slamon is the oncologist I have directing my treatment protocol. He believes in this protocol. I would not say this drug is a walk in the park. But every person is different. It is far better though than the chemo drugs I took when first diagnosed.

Good Luck with your journey. You are so smart to not become complacent. Stage III is a serious diagnosis. I was diagnosed Stage IIIC in 9/04 and all the oncologists I saw told me it was very serious and they were very worried about me. That certainly got my attention. I knew alot about breast cancer because my sister had died of the disease two years earlier. To be honest, I felt I was Stage IV right from the start---they just couldn't see it with the technology that exists today.