Fall 2009: Jake and Nancy learned that Nancy's breast cancer was stage four. Winter 2013: They are still fighting. This is a gathering place to follow their story, offer support, love and prayers... to be by their side.



Thursday, October 24, 2013

Clear brain scan, new chemo underway

Good news, my brain scan yesterday was clear.

I started my new chemo, Halaven, today and so far, so good.  Fingers crossed it will be effective.  Halaven is a fairly new drug (FDA approved 3 years ago), so there isn't a ton of data on it.  We're a little jaded because Afinitor, the last drug I was on, was touted as a big breakthrough in metastatic breast cancer, but didn't do much to slow my cancer.  Halaven doesn't have quite the hype that Afinitor has, but hopefully will work.  It seems like I tend to get more mileage out of the chemotherapies versus the hormone therapies, so hopefully that will be the case.

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