Disappointed

I had another Herceptin treatment on Friday and met with the Oncologist.  I hadn't seen the Oncologist in probably 2 months.  I had been seeing his NP every time I'd been going in for a while now.  He gave me some disappointing news.  I had a breast MRI post chemo to check the progress of the chemo and the size of the tumor.  The original size was 2.9cm.  The current size is 2.1cm.  The Oncologist was disappointed with these results.  He said that he was expecting the tumor to have shrank much more than that with all the chemo I received.  He said that my cancer is strongly Her2 positive as well as strongly estrogen positve.  Therefore, either one could be the driving force for this cancer.  Apparently, since the tumor didn't shrink very much, it appears that estrogen much be the driving force.  (If it was the Her2, the chemo would have worked better since I'm getting Herceptin)  Soooo, in other words all that chemo was pretty much pointless.  I lost my hair, had all those horrible side effects, and missed all that work for nothing!!!  It's very discouraging!  However, he said that because it looks as if the estrogen is the driving force, the Tomoxafin I will be receiving as the end of all of this will do the trick.  The upside is that this news make me more confident in my surgery decision to take them OFF!!