Tag: oncologist

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 [...]

Breaky Achey

I had herceptin on 2 December. I was meant to have it on 23 December, but I had a mini breakdown instead. I was meant to have it on 13 January, but my heart was misbehaving, so treatment was postponed. Herceptin happened again on 22 January, 7 weeks since the last lot.
Which has proved interesting, [...]