Guardant 360 testing

brutersmom

I left the facility that said that. I didn't feel confident that they were up to date. Plus they couldn't attract drs. When mine retired I got one trained by the old guard and did not feel comfortable with him so switch to a satellite office of a hospital with a large cancer center and a good reputation. They do not agree with my former hospitals practice since I am stage 4. They do agree my markers may be a good indicator but feel scans are still important. It has only been 2 years so I am every 6 months.

As for what I meant is the old hospital was real big one NED. But the blood test shows cancer cells are still floating around. I feel like at this point I am really NEAD not NED because the cancer is still in my body.

kimt179

@dulcea The Guardant test I have been taking every 6 months looks for cancer DNA that sheds into the bloodstream. It finds cancer 6 months to 3 years before it would show up on a Pet Scan. They do several types of tests and looking for mutations is just one of them. I stopped treatment after 5 negative tests in January of 2026 after 9 years of treatment for Stage 4 triple positive breast cancer, Herceptin every three weeks. I’ll continue to test with Guardant every 6 months and a Pet scan yearly. After being told I couldn’t stop treatment for life because the risk of recurrence was too high, this testing is amazing.