Hi Monigue, I think that I saw a post from you requesting the links to just a few of the studies that cite the statistic that 50% of the women who begin taking anti-hormone therapy quit taking the drugs within 5 years due to side effects. [The so-called "non-compliance" issue that the industry is trying to address.] If you did request the links, I'll message them to you. I don't want to inadvertently start a topic about non-compliance though I think acknowledgement of it is actually helpful in that, if someone does find the drugs difficult to tolerate, she might feel reassured that it's not a personal failure but just an inconvenient reality that they are very powerful drugs...and fighting a wily cancer foe.

My oncologist recommended the lumpectomy first, then I took Taxol during chemo , which laid me low until it was adjusted 20 percent lower, and the Herceptin. I'd do the Herceptin and radiation again, but not Taxol. Feeling so horribly sick (my daughter stayed with me 2 months and said she would walk into my bedroom to see if I was still alive) and watching all of my hair fall out was awful. My cancer showed up after 10 years of taking care of my husband who died with Parkinson's. That is another subject, but I wonder if stress had anything to do with it as I know of no one else in my family who had cancer.