Posted on: Jun 29, 2012 04:47 AM
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Kicks wrote:
Most of the plans I see posted for IBC are different than mine was.
I did 4 DD A/C, surgery, 12 weekly Taxol and 25 rads in that order. On Femara/letrozole since 2 weeks after last Taxol. I was told that would do chemo (A/C) first to get it to form a lump and get margins for surgery. Did and had good margins in surgery. Then Taxol to get what else was still there 'hiding somewhere' that surgery could not get. Then rads.
Made sense to me - hit it, get it out and then hit anything still there AFTER the cancer area(s) had been removed. But it seems from posts that most are doing 2 different chemos before surgery and then to rads.
Thoughts?
Dx 8/7/2009, IBC
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mrsnjband
Tulsa, OK
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Jun 29, 2012 05:06 AM mrsnjband wrote:
I had 4dd A/C, 8 single Taxol, 3.5 Taxotere, Bilateral MX & ALND, 25 Rads, 5 Boost. Since I was triple negative, I've had no other active treatment. So far, so good!
Norma June, Bi-lateral MX 2008, Bi-lateral DIEP 2011
Dx 1/10/2008, IBC, <1cm, Stage IIIb, ER-/PR-, HER2-Chemotherapy 01/25/2008 Adriamycin, CytoxanChemotherapy 03/10/2008 TaxolChemotherapy 05/29/2008 TaxotereSurgery 07/10/2008 Mastectomy (Right); Lymph Node Removal (Right); Prophylactic Mastectomy (Left)Radiation Therapy 08/11/2008 External
Nel
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Jul 1, 2012 02:14 AM Nel wrote:
I had 12 taxol/herceptin, UMX, 4 dd A/C and now on to rads either 25 or 30 treatments depends on whether they decide to do boosts) . And becasue I am Her2+ I will continue herceptin until I have a total of 52 treatments. The herceptin is now triple dosed every 3 weeks and I will finish in February 2013
I am getting htere and very hopeful
Nel
Dx 9/27/2011, IBC, ER-/PR-, HER2+
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Jul 10, 2012 10:24 PM nancyjac wrote:
8 TCH every 3 weeks
continued Herceptin every 3 weeks untill 11/12
fairly extensive surgeries 4/12, declared NED
rads just finished 7/9/12
anastrozole (Arimidex) starting today 7/10/12.
I don't think any one treatment plan is better or worse than another. It depends on more that just the BC type or stage. It also considers overall health, age, tolerance levels and a lot of other factors.
I dont
Dx 11/2011, IBC, Stage IIIb, Grade 2, ER+/PR+, HER2+Targeted Therapy 12/07/2011 HerceptinChemotherapy 12/07/2011 carboplatin, TaxotereSurgery 04/10/2012 Mastectomy (Both)Surgery 04/17/2012 Mastectomy (Left)Surgery 04/19/2012 Mastectomy (Left)Radiation Therapy 05/29/2012 ExternalHormonal Therapy 07/10/2012 Arimidex