Back into the land of treatment....sigh...
Well what a shock it was to receive a phone call from my Oncologist on Monday, telling me that preliminary results from the clinical trial that I was in during my treatment in 2009/2010, have shown t...
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Thank you Beka for your comments. It sounds lke a portacath might be the way to go! I was taking Lapatinib (otherwise known as Tykerb) for one year on the clinical trial. Yes, there were a few side effects..I got a very itchy rash, the runs, fatigue etc etc..but they told me the side effects would be much more with Herceptin...(?) You are right, I think it is the sister drug to Herceptin (one works from attacking the inside of the cell and the other works from attaching to the outside of the cell). I have been told that Tykerb (Lapatinib) is potentially not as effective as Herceptin for early breast cancer, but I understand that Tykerb is being used successfully in the USA to treat mestatic BC. From what I understand, Tykerb is more successful in combination with Herceptin (but I will check this out with my Oncologist on Monday). Thanks for putting my mind at ease about Herceptin, best wishes Celeste :D