Kadcyla
A regular pet scan showed that the cancer has spread to different parts of my body. To treat this, I changed to a new oncologist as she was very thorough with her plans to treat me. To fight this, I will be on Kadcyla targeted therapy for a long time. As I am now a Stage 4 cancer patient, there isn't any cure but this treatment is to block the growth and spread of cancer, thus prolonging my life. Kadcyla (pronounced Kad-cy-la), also known as trastuzumab emtansine, is a targeted therapy for the treatment of advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. This is given to patients that have already received treatment with other HER2 targeted therapies such as Herceptin and Perjeta. Basically Kadcyla is a combination of Herceptin and chemotherapy given as a single treatment. This type of treatment is called an antibody-drug conjugate. I get Kadcyla every 3 weeks. And, it's very expensive, even with the special patient assist program by Roche Pharmaceutical. If I'm not covered by i