Just finished Herceptin - how are you handling it?

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Leslie1962
Leslie1962 Member Posts: 233
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

I received my last Herceptin yesterday. One whole year of treatment is now done. My blood work showed CA 15-3 in the high range (U of M range for normal 32.0) at 32.7 but I am not too worried. Maybe that is just my "normal." I will have no more treatment unless something comes up. Go back to see the Oncologist in four months for a check-up. Next Wednesday I have another echocardiogram, then have my port removed and the last thing on the list is to have a PET scan. I have never had a PET scan, so this is the new part. My doctor said it would be the last test done so that he knows he has looked at everything. Hard to believe that 16 months of surgeries, chemo, radiation therapy and now Herceptin are now done and I actually got through it all pretty well. I did ask the Oncology nurse what would happen if I should have a recurrence. She said there were two more drugs waiting to be approved for HER2 patients so she felt confident that anything new could be dealt with.

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  • kimber3006
    kimber3006 Member Posts: 586
    edited February 2011

    Thanks, Leslie, your nurse's response made my night!  I just finished up Herceptin about 3 weeks ago.  It feels strange, doesn't it?  My husband even forgot and asked if I had treatment coming up on Monday, then laughed when he remembered.  It's become such a part of the routine.  Congrats on getting done!

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  • amlg1
    amlg1 Member Posts: 596
    edited February 2011

    Congrats to you!I finished in August ,it is so hard to believe that I finished 6 months ago.It was hard finishing,going from tx every2 weekds rads then herceptin for all that time,then to nothing.Feeling great,wishing you all the same.

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