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    edited June 2020 in Weekly Discussions
    I had chemo completed in December 2013. I was finished with Herceptin July 2014. I was put on Leterzole, used until December 2018. So forms ask when I finished Cancer treatment. Is it at end of Chemo, Herceptin or Letrozole? Really confused on this. Thanks.

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    • Member Posts: 238
      edited June 2020
      I am HER2 positive and ER, PR negative. My treatment started in January 2014. I use the date that I was finished with the Herceptin, January 2015.
    • Member Posts: 742
      edited June 2020
      It would be the date of last treatment given, whether it be the last pill you took, the last infusion, the last radiation treatment, or whatever. I hope you get your insurance.
    • Member Posts: 153
      edited June 2020
      When you finished with Herceptin is your date. The Letrozole is a maintenance drug and doesn't count as active treatment.
    • Member Posts: 111
      edited June 2020
      Yup. When in doubt, ask a blood bank how soon you will be allowed to donate. I did, and they told me (at first) five years after completion of treatment; w/in the past year due to blood shortages, for non-immunocompromised persons they revised it to a year. I further asked and they said all adjuvant treatment--including maintenance endocrine therapy--counts as "treatment." Therefore, I would be ineligible to donate until I'd been off letrozole for a year.

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