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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 8, 2021 | Replies (61)Comment receiving replies
I had a partial mastectomy with 7 lymphs nodes taken out in 2018. Had chemo, immunotherapy and radiation therapy. Finished a year of treatment. 2 months later in March 2019 had colon cancer (a completely different cancer.). Went thru with chemo therapy. All this treatment destroyed my kidneys so now have chronic kidney disease. A month ago got diagnosed with breast cancer that metastasized to the liver with at least 20 leisions. Dr is recommending infusion od kadcyla 1/2 dose in beginning to see how my kidneys and liver react and then increase dose. Just wondering if anyone knows of any other treatment. Thank you for rsponding to my original post.
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You certainly deserve your moniker of cancerchamp. Dealing with her2 cancer seems like enough of a mountain to climb without a second cancer and long term side effects. I hope you have family and friends helping you through all of this. Since I am still a newbie here, I am not the best at navigating this myself. Since my heart is breaking for you right now, I am going to attemp to answer your question about other treatments. You already had chemo, and some of these treatments are approved for 2nd or 3rd treatments after taxane, and or hercepton. There is one that is only available under specific guidelines and I am not altogether sure what those are. But Genentech has a website for her2, they make Kadcyla. they also list two more drugs on this website. It looks like you can use this to help guide questions for your doctor.
https://www.herconnection.com/
Do you have someone to go with you to appointments? Have you asked your doctor about other options?