SubscribeAs I mentioned last week, the team running the Persephone trial have been good enough to answer some questions about Herceptin and the trial. Here they are. Even though I’m done with Herceptin, i found this really interesting. I hope you do too.
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-Why is Herceptin such a wonder drug?
Herceptin has proved to be [...]
Bah! to cancer
Breast cancer had a pop at Stephanie. It really wishes it hadn't.
Category: drug trial
All about Persephone
Trials and macaroons
I do always try to be fair on this blog: to report my experience on the cancer conveyer belt accurately , while trying to see the points of view of others. There are people I have praised to the skies, and people – St. George’s Oncology Department, I’m mostly looking at you – who I [...]
Mirror, mirror
This week, I haven’t been sleeping so well. It’s hot, so I put my restlessness down to that. But the dreams have been strange and disquieting. In my dreams this week I’ve been losing things; I’ve been trapped behind glass; I’ve been talking to people I know well who don’t seem to know me.
Also this [...]
Coincidence
(Spoiler alert: if you haven’t opened/received your Knit Love Club parcel for March yet, be warned that there’s a pic of the yarn in this post.)
Yarn. Lovely yarn. It comes in all sorts of blends – merino, cashmere, silk, angora, alpaca. (Lurex, nylon, acrylic, but we won’t talk about those.) It comes in many colours [...]
Call me Persephone
Yesterday, we had an intelligent, helpful meeting with an intelligent, helpful oncologist. (Credit where it’s due.)
The gist of what we learned was this:
The original herceptin trial had 3 arms: no herceptin, a year of herceptin, and 2 years of herceptin. The survival rates from the 1-year arm of the trial were so dramatic compared to [...]
I’ve got an itch to scratch….
… I need assistance – as Janet from The Rocky Horror Show once sang. (As I recall, her itch was a bit more fun than mine.) Well, I’ve had a lot of assistance and advice with my itches, and I’m really grateful for all of it. In case you ever need a quick list of [...]
Uneventful… ungrateful?
The appointment with the oncologist yesterday was largely uneventful… no controversy, no disagreements, no tears!
We were very clear that I wasn’t going back on to the drug trial, and this was accepted without question. (Aside from the whole ‘exploding head’ scenario, the fact that my skin is still itchy and red added to my unspoken [...]
Itchy and scratchy
Aaargh! Being itchy all the time is torture! The rash is less angry looking, but itchy as can be, and my meditation and self control has come on in leaps and bounds over the last couple of days through the sheer effort of not gouging my skin off with my fingernails. (Except (a) for ‘meditation [...]
Going, going… and coming back
So… the oral antihistamine and steroids have been doing a pretty good job. Yesterday I was pretty rash-free, and although I woke up with some angry redness on my arms, it faded as the day went on. Face swelling had completely disappeared, as you can see from this photo of me and my Auntie Susan, [...]
Time to face it
(Here’s another post from Alan.)
In 1963 I drove my motor scooter into the back of a lorry on a dark wet night on the Kingston Bypass. I work up three days later in the plastic unit of Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton. Second to the front of the scooter, I took the full force [...]
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