Anyone on just Perjeta and Herceptin?

newjoco
newjoco Member Posts: 4
edited December 2018 in HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer

My sister had neoadjuvent treatment with TCHP and now she's just on Herceptin and Perjeta. Anyone else have this? She's 6 weeks out from her last Taxotere treatment. She thought her hair would have started growing back but maybe the Perjeta is preventing this? She has to take H&P until July.

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  • KCMC
    KCMC Member Posts: 208
    edited December 2018

    Hi I was on TCHP, six rounds and I was cold capping. I didn’t have good results cold capping. I was suppose to be on just Herceptin for the rest of the year but at the last minute my oncologist added the Perjeta for the rest of the year. I was upset at first because one of the side effects of Perjeta is hair loss. My oncologist confirmed this but all the nurses told me that my hair will grow back on H&P and it did! Tell her to be patient. I was also taking biotin too

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  • KCMC
    KCMC Member Posts: 208
    edited December 2018

    I just sent you a private message with a pic of my hair and a timeline

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  • hapa
    hapa Member Posts: 920
    edited December 2018

    It took until about 11 weeks after my last taxotere for my hair to start to grow back. I was really sweating it for a while there. I went in for one of my HP infusions and complained to the onc nurse that my hair wasn't back yet and she told me it took six weeks after your last TCHP. I told her it had been seven weeks. She didn't say anything. It's thick and lush now though, possibly even thicker than before. I finished in July.

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