Lymph Nodes, Herceptin and Stuff

Well - back from hospital - both a bit shattered but getting more determined and positive with each passing minute.

Pathology result showed five discreet tumours in the breast and eight out of twenty six lymph nodes positive. Strongly HER-2 positive and strongly oestrogen receptor positive. Mixed news then. We meet our oncologist for the first time in three days and until then it looks like we've got a lot of background reading to do!

At the moment it looks like the suggested treatment will be a mix of chemotherapy and radiotherapy with herceptin and tamoxifen to follow. Chemo will be with the FEC regimen and with Taxitere included. Sounds like we know what we're talking about doesn't it, but in truth it's all so new to us that we haven't really got our head around it yet.

More to follow - at least we now know exactly the challenge we face

Wish us luck!

Gordon and Marjory

We have published several articles about herceptin on this site and you can find them collected in our herceptin treatment archive page