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01-30-2007, 12:09 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles
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take off port or not?
if herceptin is completed, should i take the port out. On the negative side, I'm scared that this will come back and will have to get it placed back in.
the doctor says i should take it out to avoid infection but I know of several women with ports for over a year without problems. the hassle of course is to have it flushed but it would be so much easier to keep it and to get regular blood draws from there ( every 3 months right now for me)
apprecaite your opinion
XOXO
MCS ( maria)
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01-30-2007, 12:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Acworth, GA
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My oncologist said that when I'm finished with my Herceptin she wants my port to stay in for six months to a year.
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Kate
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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01-30-2007, 02:36 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Hilton Head Island, SC
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As one who has had a port taken out and then put back in - I am keeping mine for awhile! It just makes sence to me. I had an infection in my port in the last few months of therapy but because my veins were so bad decided to go ahead and put another back in. I was hoping to stay on Herceptin a little longer but even so - I am glad I still have it. I look at it as insurance.
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Kim
Diagnosed 7/05
Stage 3a er+(45%) pr+(68%) Her2+ (40%)
3.8 cm + .8cm multi focal - pleomorphic lobular tumors
high grade DCIS
7/20 nodes
BRCA 2 positive as of 5/07
surgeries: double mastectomy, hysterectomy (LAVH)
A/C,Herceptin for 1 year completed 11/06
femara
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01-30-2007, 06:25 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Bradenton,FL
Posts: 977
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Have had my second port for 1 1/2 years now.Completed Hercep July 06. My oNc wants to wait a full year after TX ended to remove. I have had O problems with either the subclavian catheter or the implanted port.
Hope this helps,Marcia
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01-30-2007, 07:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 430
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I have not had any infection with it, which of course doesn't rule future ones but I am leaning to leaving there for a few month more. does this mean that i think i'll need it again, negative thinking?
MCS ( maria)
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01-30-2007, 08:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Alexandria, VA
Posts: 1,055
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I'm going to get mine out before tank top season. Yeah! Onc was surprised I didn't want it out immediately, but I didn't want to schedule surgery in December. So do what you want to do. BB
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01-31-2007, 03:27 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 1,516
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My onc and surgeon BOTH
said I could have it out. Last Herceptin 8/10/06, Port out 9/1/06...surgeon even "prettied" up the scar a little as the radiology dept that put it in did an "ugly" job. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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01-31-2007, 04:24 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mountains of Virginia
Posts: 2,267
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Both my onc and surgeon want to wait 6 months to a year. I have not had any problems and mine is really not noticable so I'll leave it for a while. I don't see it as negative thinking, just not rushing anything.
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01-31-2007, 08:01 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: (Hill Country) Texas
Posts: 72
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I had mine out right after I finished Herceptin. I live 38 miles from my onc. and didn't want to cont. traveling to have it flushed. I think your onc. will look at what stage you are and your risk of reoccurance. I know mine first wanted to leave it in for awhile, but then changed his mind.
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Jackie
Stage II, Grade 2, DX 4-05
EP +, HER2 +++,
1 node+, 1.6cm
46 yrs. old at time of dx.
Completed Chemo 11-05
Completed 1 yr. Herceptin 8-06
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