Jeep65 How are you?

[Doris202]

Since your TNBC was dx'd and rx'd in 2007, I'm wondering how you are now?    Triple-negative b c is an aggressive form and at this time 2010, the best adjuvent rx is chemo, even for Stage 1 tumors, or so I've read.    It frequently recurrs within three years, so I hope your status is better.    Good review article in Annals of Oncology, Dec. 2009.

[Doris202]

OK!  Mice...rats... etc.  I'm most interested in people...women!   Thanks for the correction.   I'll try the two new links you sent tomorrow morning.   I want to be as informed as I can be when I go to my second opinion apptmt in 11 days.

[bluebutterfly2222]

Correction: the subjects were mice, not rats. :-)

[bluebutterfly2222]

Sorry! Too much in a hurry again.

Here's the article about the study just presented at the April, 2010 American Assoc. for Cancer Research annual meeting.

http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/targeted_therapies/new_research/20100421.jsp

[bluebutterfly2222]

Sorry! I should have checked them out before giving them to you, but I was in a hurry.

Okay, here's the link to the online TNBC chat with two experts. It's 2 years old, but still might be of interest.

http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/types/ask_expert/2008_07/

And here is the link to a new TNBC reseach study with excellent results--except that it's still in the rat phase :-(  (But maybe some promise for the future?)

Thanks for alerting me to the reference you found! Please send me a link if you have one.

Regards,
bb

[Doris202]

Thanks for your encouragement.   I was not able to connect with either of the links you sent...bummer.   Thanks for trying.   The best article I've found thus far on triple negative is a review article published Dec. 2009 in the Annals of Oncology.   I want you to know about it since you are very active and helpful to so many on this forum.

[bluebutterfly2222]

Hi Doris,

I am glad you are getting a second opinion and putting a lot of thought into the decision regarding chemo.  TNBC is generally aggressive, but although it has no targeted tx (such as tamoxifen for ER+ or Herceptin for HER2+), it often responds well to chemo.

I am sending you a PM  regarding some sites with TNBC info that you may or may not have discovered.

Best wishes...

[Doris202]

Many thanks for the link.   I was very interested in Jeep65's status in 2009.  

I'm going for a second opinion at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in a couple of weeks, but am leaning toward accepting chemo, inspite of have Stage 1 and my renal problems.   Triple negative seems to need it.

[bluebutterfly2222]

Jeep65 checked in with us again in 2009. Click on this link:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Breast-Cancer/Triple-negative-breast-cancer--survival-after-metastasis/show/1043050

Best wishes...

[japdip]

After reading down the list of recent posts I didn't see any on this forum from "Jeep65" .... are you sure you have the correct Forum? You might contact "Jeep65" by private message or a note. Thanks .....