SubscribeYou’ll remember that, after a great deal of thought, I decided not to have any more herceptin.
There wasn’t really any hurry to let the hospital know, so I didn’t really hurry. Partly because we were away in the immediate aftermath of the decision; partly, I think – although I didn’t make a conscious decision about [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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