HER2/neu role in breast cancer: from a prognostic foe to a predictive friend.
On the EVE of my becoming a 2 year survivor, I found this QUITE fitting as when FIRST dx, my onc said I would NOT get Herceptin unless I recurred and LITERALLY 2 days after my last chemo the news of ASCO broke and on my first follow up in Aug, my onc said...lets do it. Interesting how much difference a day makes. This is the PERFECT example of why it is hard for us to "compare" dx and prognosis as what one dx WAS, the treatments have changed so. I had the pleasure of speaking to Christine the other day and incidentally, she sounded WONDERFUL. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
I know this should have been placed under articles, but I just thought it was a very UPLIFTING.
PS...if you like reading scientific journals, the one I attached is an AWESOME one and was referred to me from the source of a trial I am waiting for. I merely type in HER2 and click on the publication date and get articles that won't even be published for months down the road.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_DocSum
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Rhonda
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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