Herceptin alone -- always at an oncology center?

[AlaskaAngel]

Those who are within easy driving distance of Anchorage have access to oncology practices.

Elsewhere, if our medical practitioners didn't make the special effort to become certified to offer chemo and drugs like trastuzumab through a few small hospital ICU's and some clinics with qualified, highly trained personnel, cancer patients living in the entire remainder of the state would be a huge expense to themselves and others to transport and then house elsewhere, and would be unable to continue their jobs and lives or be anywhere near friends or family for support.

Your local medical practitioners and patients may need to seek to do the same to achieve a more reasonable and realistic solution.

AlaskaAngel

P.S. Patients here DO see an oncologist elsewhere for initial analysis and recommendations, and sometimes for complications subsequently, but for uncomplicated routine drug administration they are treated in facilities closer to their home.