Hair regrowth after Taxotere ?

Sorry porcheduzza you are completley wrong. It is NOT ONLY hair and you have no idea if Taxotere has saved your life! Any of the other chemos could do the job just as well - just because its the latest chemo doesnt mean it works the best on you.
Only people suffering from PSA would understand.
In France the medics are so concerned about this problem there is now an official survey being carried out in North west France - they have informed Sanofi about this and , of course, they are not happy.
porcheduzza, my oncologist told me that when they construct a treatment plan for someone, its not a case of 'just keep them alive' but they also take into consideration how the patient is going to live afterwards.

The latest news from France is this - i would say this is alarming.
The oncologists (in France)that are concerned about Taxotere's disfiguring adverse side effects have phoned and tried to speak to Sanofi Aventis France and they REFUSE to talk about it with them.

Hi every one newly diagnosed Breast cancer ... what do i call my self person? lol To be brutaly honest i do not know anything about breast cancer other than it is the worst thing i probably ever faced in my life and believe me when i say i face a lot of worse things...
I go see my specialist on the 8th of this month so will know more then. My diagnosis reads as this breast mass is suggestive of invasive ductal carcinoma and lymph nodes are positive for metastasis. you all probably know a heck of a lot more what that means than I do.
oddly enough the thing that jumped out at me was this..we lose our eye lashes too?! I mean im no beauty queen so concite is far down the list of my personality but geez really! =( I am just trying to come to terms with losing a breast or both and the real possibility i might not make it although i am very optomistic that my fighting spirit and family and freinds old and new will pull me through.
Like i said i dont know much and to be frankly honest im scared out of my mind to learn to much to fast =( even though time is really not on my side It takes a lot for me to process this at all. please bear with me. =(
I apoligize if this is the wrong place to post this.

When I was dx'd, I was right there with you all. I didn't have a CLUE what was going on or what to expect. In fact, it was Hubby who did the research for *both* of us. Part of that may have also been a self-defense coping-mechanism on my part, a type of denial? I'm not sure.

This is going to sound really strange, but here goes: I did not have chemo. However, I lost my eyelashes and a good deal of my hair (which is super sparse to begin with). Retrospectively, I would guess "stress" (the almighty and all-encompassing word du jour) played a significant role.

I used to have eyelashes so long that I'd have to trim them (yes, actually trim them) because they'd brush against my glasses and hurt my eyelids.

Eyebrows,...I only have half-brows, which looks goofy.

But,........I am alive. This was caught in time. I am healthier FOR it than I ever would have been if I ignored all of this.... And for that, I thank God every single day!! (And my Husband!) :)











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