Breast cancer

From: GA12L@aol.com
Mon Jan 30 05:56:57 2006


Does anyone know what HER2 is and can you explain it to me?

My mum had a mastectomy for Invasive Lobular breast cancer in July followed by chemo followed by radiotherapy and is now on Arimidex. She's been hearing lots about Herceptin and is wondering and worrying why she hasn't been prescribed it. I don't have any answers for her. I looked on the internet (google wasn't my friend in this instatce, el) and found that it is prescribed to women with HER2 positive cancer! I can't find anything else out, please help.

Thanks in anticipation,

Gail





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