I am alone at home and posting to feel better.
I would like to know how many of us had a second successful treatment after a fail in previous one. And when I say successful I mean a treatment that shrinked the tumour, put it in remission or ned.
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Fitztwins Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 8,175 |
Nov 21, 2009 03:57 pm
Fitztwins wrote:
Well, since I was dx 5 years ago. I did taxol, A/C tamoxifen, herceptin. Then Femara 2 years. Then when my mets were diagnosed..Taxotere, herceptin and Aromsin. + Zometa. I guess you could call the first one a failure, since it came back. Remember vivo, there are so many different drugs to try. When one door closes a window opens. If you want, have a biopsy and the cancer retested. Maybe you can get onto Herceptin, or something similar. Sometimes the cancer morphs. . Janis Enjoy Every Sandwich.
Diagnosis: 12/12/2004, IDC, Stage IV, Grade 2, mets, ER+/PR+, HER2+ |
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Maryiz Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 930 |
Nov 21, 2009 06:44 pm
Maryiz wrote:
Janis, I love that word, "morphs." It has a funny sound but a good connotation. Vivo, there are so many drugs to try and so many are coming out. I believe soon they will be offering a chemo cocktail that will do more than the treatments we have. There will be more targeted therapies and treatment with nano particles. Hang in, Maryiz |
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vivo Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 427 |
Nov 22, 2009 04:03 am
vivo wrote:
Maryiz my doc told me in the last appointment that in 10 years time every cancer patient will have his/her cancer pills at home and do really personalized treatments. Docs will not interested in the primary tumour but in every lump's characteristiks. It sounds too good, isn't it? But how long can we hang in? The meaning of life is not what you learn but what you teach
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Maryiz Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 930 |
Nov 22, 2009 10:17 am
Maryiz wrote:
Vivo, my greatest supporters keep telling me one foot in front of the other. It sounds silly, but that is what we can do. I think your doctor is correct, but Vivo, I really believe it will be less than 10 years that this happens. They are working on delivering drugs through a nanoparticle, which will allow the drugs to hit just the bad cells and not the healthy ones. That is the problem with today's chemo, it hurts healthy cells indiscriminately. Canadian researchers are working on drugs to combat BC mutations. They dissected breast cancer tissue from a metastatic BC patient and found 32 mutations. They really are working on it. My hope is yours, that these therapies will emerge soon. Thinking of you. Maryiz |
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LuAnnH Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 8,853 |
Nov 22, 2009 10:37 am
LuAnnH wrote:
I had 8 years in between dx and mets so I suppose you could count that as a success. But since the mets dx I've had 2. I was on arimidex for 7 months til progression. Aromasin did not work so we tried faslodex. That worked successfully on its own for 2 1/2 years. Now I am on tamoxifen and faslodex and we have seen a decrease in my tumors from the progression. LuAnn -- www.luannsblog.typepad.com
Diagnosis: 7/2/2006, IDC, 2cm, Stage IV, mets, ER+/PR+, HER2+ |
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Maryiz Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 930 |
Nov 22, 2009 11:30 am
Maryiz wrote:
Great news, LuAnn. You seem to respond well to the hormonals. Maryiz |
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jmar19 Joined: May 2006 Posts: 89 |
Nov 23, 2009 10:08 pm
jmar19 wrote:
When I was first diagnosed with stage IV, my doctor initiated chemo. After my first treatment, My RCC and WCC crashed and caused me to be hospitalized twice within a week. The first time was because my WCC was low and I had really high fevers. The second time I needed a blood transfusion and needed fluid out of both my lungs (due to the lung mets). After a long recovery from this first treatment, my doctor wanted to try another form of chemo. I take a pill now. I have no side effects from it and I've been feeling so much better in the last few months. I don't have any more cough, bone pain, or fatigue. I don't get short of breath and I'm able to do almost everything I did before. I'm feeling great and my blood work every week looks better and better. Diagnosis: 3/27/2009, 6cm+, Stage IV, 19/19 nodes, mets, ER+/PR+, HER2- |
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Fidelia Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 307 |
Nov 24, 2009 12:38 am
Fidelia wrote:
Hi Vivo, Like the other replies - I had nearly 5 years with no treatment after dx. It came back and I was on tamoxifen for 6 years 3 months - now on Femara for 18 months and getting a little concerned after recent rise in tumour markers. Sounds as though you have a good doctor - the key for many of us is the doctor accurately identifying the kind of tumour jmar19's experience seems very typical for women who have hormonally responsive disease - chemo is not much help - hormonals are very very good. The big challenge for hormonal responders is how many times can you use this stuff - can you cycle between tamox and the various AIs - can you use oestrogen or sorafenib to restart the response when your body gets used to the treatment? These are the sorts of questions for hormonal responders - for others, there are some ladies here who report excellent results on gemzar and other chemos....so the short answer is YES and in the literature doctors report 3rd and 4th line treatments now - so the drugs are certainly working better for some...the constant challenge is Maryiz has said - just to hang in there and be very sure that the doctor has correctly identified the type of disease you are fighting :) Fidelia |
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