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i just heard that the chemotherapy drug taxol may not work in breast cancer; has anyone else heard of this?
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Taxol
- By Charlene
- Posted October 20, 2007 at 12:01 am · 3 replies
- In Breast cancer
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- By Amy5
- Posted October 25, 2007 at 6:11 pm
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I have heard of this new finding. But, apparently it is a specific type of breast cancer that taxol does not work in. have you heard anymore?
- By Anna7
- Posted October 26, 2007 at 11:24 am
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I believe that women with breast cancer that's HER-negative and ER-positive are the ones who may not benefit from Taxol. I think Taxol does benefit women with HER2-positive breast cancer.
- By Bonnie7
- Posted October 30, 2007 at 10:11 am
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I am a survivor of estrogen positive breast cancer. I was diagnosed in early 2003 and completed treatments in Jan. of 2004.
Part of that treatment was Taxol. I hope what you folks heard about Taxol is not true. It makes me want to throw a very large fit if it does not work. Taxol nearly killed me. I have so much residual neuropathy that I have never been totally without some sort of pain medicine since 2004.
The reason I am responding to this blog is to discuss living with neuropathy, and what happens when our five years are up. Everyone I know except my daughter who had some sort of terribly aggressive non extrogen positive breast cancer,have gone on some type of drug for five years following treatment.
What are your thoughts?
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