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Breast Cancer HER2+ Currently being treated with Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab every 3 weeks. Seems to be doing its job keeping down the cancer growth rate. She also used to have Zoledronic acid at the same time but that caused osteonecrosis of the jaw, so has been stopped.

Strangely, we're relatively happy with the bone mets. The two times the cancer hit soft tissue it grew alarmingly quickly. First in the breast, then when it came back and broke out the L2 vertebrae and wrapped the nerve. At least in the bone it grows slowly. When it eventually starts to break out, the next treatment is Trastuzumab emtansine, which is a chemo drug, so will have many more side effects to manage.