Stage IV - HER2 - 7 years!

Congratulations!  Such an inspiration to everyone. 

A wonderful story, and an inspiration to all! 

Thank you so much for sharing! 

Wishing you many, many more years! 
The Mods

Congrats Juniper! That's amazing! I was diagnosed Stage 4, triple positive in May, and this gives me so much hope for a great future.

Thanks Juniper! So far so good. I have had 10 weekly treatments of Taxol, mixed in with Herceptin and Perjeta every 3 weeks. They seem to be doing their job, because my rather large lump is no longer palpable! 

Congrats, Juniper!!!

I'm following you and hope to get as good result as you have had. I'm on my 4'th year with HER+ stage IV.

Posts such as this are invaluable to those going through this, as a positive experience to give the hope many need to read. 

Inspiring hope and a positive approach can be so important to any treatment process. It is great to read such stories.

The Mods

huge congrats!! Fellow stage IV on Herceptin ( 2nd time) for 2 yr so far so good!! You give us hope!!

Congratulations Juniper!!  I love hearing success stories!

I am Stage IV - HER2 - 4 years - on Herceptin - stable

so thankful to still be here

congratulations!  So happy to hear this news

Nancy

stage IV from the start and have been NED since June 2008.... Nearly 6 1/2 years!   Love hearing these success stories! 

Jennifer

I love to hear stories like this, it is so encouraging for the rest of us!

thanks for sharing this! you are all so encouraging

Thank you for this post. I really needed to read these hopeful stories today. I was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer almost two years ago. I had a hard 18 months of very aggressive treatment, but was taken off Herceptin this past July after I had completed the standard one year. There was debate about whether to keep me on it because my cancer was a tough one. I have been well, but now have a hard pea-sized lump near the scar on my left side and it seemed to appear out of nowhere just in the last week. I'm waiting for a call back about a biopsy appointment. I'm having a hard time fathoming how I will cope if it is a recurrence (which seems likely)...but all of you living with Stage IV HER+ disease have given me reason to breathe deeply and not jump ahead of myself to worst-case scenarios. I really appreciate it. I'll be 44 in a few weeks and I have a wonderful husband and an 11-year-old son I adore and I really want to be around for MUCH MUCH longer.

Thank you for giving us hope. My mom just diagnosed with stage IV cancer, mets to lung, liver and bone, HER+. She will be starting chemo (taxo, herceptin, Perjeta) this Wednesday.

I just gave birth last month and still coping very hard with the situation with my messy hormone and anxiety....