Val started treatment this past Monday: daily Tarceva pills and a biweekly infusion of MM-121. She’s been very fatigued all week but apparently this treatment doesn’t typically increase fatigue, so that could be just cumulative exhaustion plus a busy social schedule. The predicted, uncomfortable, acne-like rash has not yet made an appearance. Taking the drug on an empty stomach (Tarceva must be taken an hour before food) is a little uncomfortable, Val says, but overall, so far this regimen isn’t bad.
Meanwhile, Val is taking herself to the desert for a few days to look at the stars.
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Yay for the holding off of the acne-like rash! May it continue to be absent.