Informal Poll - Where were you treated and what was your chemo?

Treated in Pittsburgh, PA at Allegheny General Hospital.  TCH combo (taxotere, carboplatin, Herceptin) 6 doses every three weeks of all three than finished the year of Herceptin. I had surgery first, then chemo and then radiation. Diagnosed in July of 2010, surgery was August 23, 2010.  Mastectomy with full axillary node clearance, 33 rads to three fields. Opted out of two clinical trials offered to be, one was with avastin, can't remember the other one but it had to do with giving something other than Hercepin (began with an L). My signature does not reveal that my entire tumor size was 7.5cm.  It was mostly DCIS.  I had numerous tumors, the largest is listed, the rest were small.  I also had Paget's disease of the nipple, four positive nodes, LVI present. That's all folks... 

Rx'd given by OHSU in Portland, OR

AC x 4 DD, Taxol x 4 DD followed by 6 weeks of Carboplatin, once a week, for BRCA status

Told to walk an hour a day to fight the fatigue for such a long chemo regime. 

Being treated locally in nc. Had 9cm area of involvement 30 percent as dcis. So invasive was around 6 cm Had multiple nodes positive and had alnd. Did 4ac dd and4 taxol dd. Then had hysterectomy week after finishing chemo and started rads 2 weeks later - 33 total.



Now taking femara Metformin and zometa(2x year). Stage is 3a. Er+ (70%) pr weakly + and her2-

Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.  I'm having neoadjuvant (sp?) 4 A/C DD and now 4 DD Taxol. Then sugery, then 6 weeks of Rads.  Then 5 years of hormone blockers. 

Park Ridge, IL           Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Left Mastectomy/ DIEP Reconstruction  January 10th

4 DD AC (Feb 22 - April 4)

3 week break

12 weekly Taxol (April 25 'til July 11th)

then there will be a 4 week break

followed by 30-35 rads

Tamoxifen is on the agenda also

2001 Mammo, U/S, Bx: Alaska

2002 Lumpectomy: Washington State

Chemo: CAFx6 (refused blood boosters); no trastuzumab, no taxane - Alaska

IMRT Rads: California

F/U: Alaska, w/Washington imaging; no evidence of recurrence

Local hospital in central Florida (33881), oncologist is Duke/Harvard trained, good enough for me

FEC-T 3 x 3 adjuvantly

Boca Raton, Florida in 2006; TAC X 6 (every three weeks)

I am being treated at MD Anderson.



Currently Taxol/Herceptin x 12



Next FEC x 4 (every 3 weeks) + Herceptin weekly for 6 months, then every 3 weeks to finish out the year



Surgery



Rads x 30



Tamoxifen for 5 years

Love seeing all the TAC ladies doing well many years after chemo!

I had surgery in Dubai, followed by chemo at the Gulf International Cancer Center in Abu Dhabi. I am partway through 4 DD AC treatments, to be followed by 12 (or maybe more?) weekly treatments of something else, I think maybe taxol but not positive. Rads to follow that...

Marhaban Momine! :-) How are the doctors in Greece? Hope you have been getting the best treatment!

I don't yet know stage or grade, and I guess I won't until after left mastectomy. I was just diagnosed on July 27, 2012. Idc Er/pr HER2+.



I'm being treated at the Stephanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center, Columbus Ohio. It's part of the James Cancer Center at Ohio State University. I have an awesome oncology team.



Right now the plan is mastectomy between now and early October, followed by chemo...Adria cytoxan, and taxol. Won't know until after surgery if I need rads. I guess I'll be taking Herceptin too.

Momine, I am glad your health care experience is good! I'm a Canadian expat, and not of Arabic descent. I studied Arabic for the first couple of years I lived here and I agree with you- it is difficult! It took me quite a while to learn to read it, and the problem still remains that I mostly have no idea what the words I have just read might mean. :-) My children, on the other hand, have picked it up more easily than I and have no hesitation starting conversations in Arabic.