Your experience fills me with hope. I am 81 and may start on the Taxol/Herceptin part of the treatment, but am waiting for definitive HER2 diagnosis from Mayo (a second opinion). I'm assuming it will confirm the HER2+, but have a smidgen of hope that it might not. Had a lumpectomy 3 weeks ago. I am otherwise healthy, but had DCIS - lumpectomy/radiation/Tamoxifen - in 2010.