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Inflammatory Breast Cancer-Her2/neu overexpressed
My wife was diagnosed with inlammatory breast cancer on June 5, 2002. She had 3 treatments of adriamycin and cytoxan and 1 of doxil and taxotere to date. She was given a FISH test which showed that she did have and overexpression of Her2/neu. When we began treatment on June 5(the same day as diagnosis was given to us) the tumor was about 5 cm. It still is about 5 cm. She began Herceptin yesterday. Based on the results so far do we have a lot to worry about or are chemo resistant tumors like this fairly normal in inflammatory breast cancers?
There's a site for IBC info & support. It's: http://www.ibcsupport.org Wishing the very best for your wife! >Connie
Dear bear601: Inflammatory breast cancer can be a difficult cancer to treat. Chemoresistance can be a problem but it is concerning that she had no apparent response to adriamycin/cytoxan. Hopefully, this new regimen, along with the herceptin, will yield better results. Sometimes tumors behave unusually and a different combination will have better results.
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