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Jandy Lee
Hello everyone, my name is Janet and I was recently diagnosed with early breast cancer, found by mammogram in July. Three weeks ago I had lumpectomy surgery, with good and bad news pathology results...
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I too have HER2 +. It's not all bad!! A wonderful drug called Herceptin came on the market some years ago and then was put on PBS. This is a drug which actually targets the HER2+ cancer cells and has improved the prognosis immensely. I will be on Herceptin for 12 mths once I finish my other chemo.
The way I see it is that in all of this I am lucky to have 'gotten' this BC at a time where treatment had been so improved. I remain positive :) I hope you do too :)
All of the girls on this site have been wonderful to me, giving me advice and encouragement during my wobbly days.
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xx Silke