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Carols
9 years agoMember
Recent Research on Chemotherapy For Triple Negative Breast Cancer
I was wondering if anyone knew how to access the recent research from Europe which advises that women who only had 6 cycles of chemo only survived up to 5 years after original diagnosis and women who...
Carols
9 years agoMember
Thank you everyone for your comments. My chemotherapy has now been changed after completing 5 cycles every 21 days (15 weeks) of TAC to now another 9 weeks of chemo but only one drug Paclitaxel every 7 days. I now don't have to worry about completing 8 cycles of TAC which was really taking its toll on me physically. The chemo regime has been changed due to the TAC causing issues with my heart. This new regime will be much easier to handle and will still give me 24 weeks of chemo which is what they wanted to achieve with 8 cycles. The recent research was about doing chemo for 24 weeks instead of 18 weeks.