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No response to paclitaxel - anyone else?
Hi all, I was dx with early BC in August this year. I turned 40 this year. It's a grade 2(ish) invasive ductal. Hormone +ive, HER2 -ive. Because it was in my lymph nodes, my treating team wanted ...
My oncologist decided that the paclitaxel isn't working as much as he would like.
So I'm off for another PET scan tomorrow and then surgery next Wednesday.
The hope is that all the chemo I've done to date will let me keep some of my lymph nodes. My luck to date hasn't been great though, so I'm pretty much expecting to wake up on Wednesday evening minus boob AND lymph nodes. Sigh.
So I'm off for another PET scan tomorrow and then surgery next Wednesday.
The hope is that all the chemo I've done to date will let me keep some of my lymph nodes. My luck to date hasn't been great though, so I'm pretty much expecting to wake up on Wednesday evening minus boob AND lymph nodes. Sigh.