SubscribeYesterday, 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 [...]
Tag: decision
Call me Persephone
The minutes of the meeting
Today, Alan and I did what we said we’d do, and revisited our holding decision not to have any more herceptin. We agreed that we still felt it was the right decision…. kinda. We agreed that we were doing the right thing… probably. It felt right…. almost certainly. It was all a bit unsatisfactory, really.
Cue [...]
You call it
I know that herceptin is usually given for a year in the UK. I know that the decision about whether to permit herceptin to be made available through the NHS is down to NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence). I know that NICE has no say over the length of time that [...]
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