Getting Cancer-Free Timeline

I get asked a lot, “When is your Cancer over?”

Well.  Seems easy enough. 

It’s not.

Which chemo?  And radiation?  And surgery?

So here’s the (sorta) short answer:

TCH+P Cocktail – what you actually think of when you hear “chemo” – Every three weeks from January 23^rd, for six rounds (May 8^th will be the last if the cancer follows MY calendar).

Lumpectomy Surgery:  Three weeks after the May 8^th chemo.  (So around the end of May)

Targeted Chemo: Every three weeks for a year, until January 2019.  This is an IV chemo Herceptin for the HER2+ nastiness.  

Radiation: Five times a week for three to six weeks, three weeks after the lumpectomy and during the targeted Chemo.  (Starting around June 19^th, daily, Monday through Friday, until either July 10^th or 31^st).

Hormone gunk:  Since the cancer is fed by hormones as well, five to ten years of hormone treatment.

As a good friend said, when I came close to losing, it realizing just how long this “disruption” is, “One step at a time.”