A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  • First Pembrolizumab plus NAB-Paclitaxel cycle

    I now have my first dose of Pembrolizumab and my first 3 doses of nab-Paclitaxel onboard. The regime seems ok so far. The chemo side effects are familiar from last year, with the bonus that I don’t need to have any steroids, or indeed anything ...
  • Back on the merry go round

    Yesterday was treatment day 1. Pembrolizumab plus NAB Paclitaxel. I have been given a treatment schedule running all the way to December. There is treatment on all but 4 Fridays. The Paclitaxel has one week off in every 4 but still they are planning ...
  • Starting treatment again

    I have a couple of appointments in my diary. On Monday, I go to see the oncologist to get the results of the various tests they did to make sure I am healthy enough to go on Pembrolizumab, and hopefully to sign consent forms. On Friday 26th May, I am...
  • Thoughts on Pembrolizumab

    Pembrolizumab has been around for a few years, but is fairly new in the world of TNBC. My oncologist doesn’t have direct personal experience of it, as she is a breast cancer oncologist, and by the sound of it I will be the hospital’s firs...
  • Progression again

    The results are in from my PET-CT scan and I do have further progression. The first metastasis to my liver, the one I had ablated in December, has grown back to fill all of the space left by the ablation. So it’s about twice the size it was in ...