Mets Matters Blog

To hear the pharmaceutical companies tell it, you would think that metastatic women are just NOT enrolling in their clinical trials. Dig a little deeper and you discover that more often than not, they are being turned away.
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Good news for women with metastatic breast cancer! On January 29^th the FDA approved a new drug option for HER2+ metastatic women: Tykerb in combination with Femara.
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The holidays are always a joyful and stressful time of year. Being metastatic and dealing with family and friends complicates things.
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"Breast cancer is not pretty, pink, sexy, only for older women, the 'good' kind of cancer, fun, cured with a positive attitude, only for October." So says a T-shirt that's popular on the message board bcmets.org.
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You're walking down the street, you look pretty hot (and not because the sun is out!). You look healthy even though you're just coming back from a doctor's appointment where you've been told that the last PetCT scan showed progression and that you will be changing chemos . . .
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Remember the movie "Norma Rae"? Sally Fields played a feisty young mill worker whose courageous fight led to the unionization of a notorious anti-union employer in North Carolina.
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