TO JEAN

jeancmici said:

Still here - thanks for your kind thoughts. How are YOU doing? I was so shocked that we lost Jane so soon.

Good Luck,
Jean

Jean,

Glad to hear from you. I have not been posting much on this board but was thinking about you. I am having a ct scan on Monday. My TM's are on the rise and they have been very accurate for me. I have been on a clinical trial for 8 months and was doing very well...until the tm's shot up. Lungs were in remission and the liver was close. Dang...this disease seems to have part of my personality...stubborn!

Take care Jean and keep those posts coming

Warmly,

Judie

History

Discovered lump Sept. 2002 (mammo didn’t pick it up)
Dx Oct 2002-just turned 41
IDC and pagets disease, stage 2B, grade 3/3, nottingham scale 9/9
3cm, lumpectomy,clean margins
er/pr-pos, her2 neg, 2/25 nodes w/cancer
Nov 2002-March 2003-FEC (5fu, epirubicin, cytoxen)
March 2003- started tamoxifen
May 2003- finished rads (33tx)
June 2003-CT/PET Scan- clear
Started 3 month check ups w/lab
Dec 2003-complete hysterectomy
Jan 2004-extensive mets, both lungs & liver(labs normal)
Jan 2004-stopped tamoxifen
Feb 2004 CEA-23 (0-3 normal) CA27.29-66.1 (0-38 normal)
Feb 23to current-clinical trial, taxol & avastin
April 15th, 2004-CT-significant shrinkage on all tumors/plueral effusion gone
June 8th 2004-CT-all liver lesions decreased in size/lung mets gone
Aug 9th, 2004-CA27.29 is 22.3, CEA is .8)
Aug 9th, 2004-Brain-CT neg, lung mets/pleural effusion still gone, liver mets had slight shrinkage. Largest hypodesne lesion is 2.1cm, 6 others 1cm or less.
Sept-Tumor markers on the rise
Sept-13th-bone scan negative, mri revealed herniated disc, Sept 27th next ct scan