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Has your doctor been straightforward about your survival?
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Sep 7, 2025 | Replies (93)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for your reply. It’s good to know you did not suffer many of the side effects that go with the chemo. In anticipation of hair loss, I’m considering getting mine chopped so that effect won’t be as dramatic. I appreciate the tips on mouth rinsing and foot care. I’ll stock up now on baking soda. Chemo most likely will be followed by radiation but I’m not sure. I read that targeted treatment is not effective for USC —there’s so much info out there and I’m careful now what I read in the Web. I’m wishing you success and healing on your journey. Thank you again.
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Targeted therapy does indeed work for USC. Enhertu has shrunk my tumors by 58% since I started on the treatment in January.
I have stage 3C1 (2?) serous cell endometrial cancer. Carboplatin/paclitaxel didn't work, but Enhertu does.
I hope to report results of my next CT scan in three weeks time.
So far I've had 7 cycles of this targeted therapy.
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actually i managed to get a second opinion with mayo in phoenix and they liked what i got (6 treatments with cisplatin and taxol plus herceptin) and every 3 weeks with herceptin. they actually did the pathology and read the ct-scans, not just looking at the results. very impressed. i'm not sure how uterine is different from endometrial but i don't think it can't be that different? i thought herceptin gives you a lot (9.3 vs 17.7 months?)
i think this might have been the study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32601075/
i think there were other studies on the cancer share website. certainly did not get any info from oncologist(s).