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Treatment options
Discuss new treatments, alternative treatments, and standard of care issues. Also discuss the side effects or adverse effects that arise from these treatments and how to identify, manage and report them.
Surgery to Prevent Lesions BONE Metastasis ?
- By XYZin · New reply 8:09 am
- 10 replies
- Hi Ladies, I would like to ask for you opinion about a treatment. My mother has MBC to her whole spinal cord (and some other sites, such as hips, shoulders, femur, ribs etc). The spinal cord is the most ...
HELP!!!! L00KING FOR ANSWERS/SUGGGESTIONS
- By IWILLBEATTHIS · New reply yesterday at 1:24 pm
- 8 replies
- Hi Girls, Looking for help/answers/suggestions. I am on my second round of Taxotere/Carblotin combo. Stage lV triple negative. First round wasn't too bad, little nausea a lot of fatigue. Second round ...
Liver cirrhosis
- By Lr24 · New reply November 6, 2009
- 4 replies
- I've been a stage IV since Jan. '07. I had results back today from my last CT scan. My Onc said I now have liver cirrhosis. My liver has been acting up lately... I've gotten very swollen (swollen abdomen ...
xeloda and avastin
- By goldi1925 · New reply November 3, 2009
- 3 replies
- I am on xeloda + avastin for the past 12 months. One week on, one week off. The marker went down from 180 to 110 after 2 months Now it is back to 180. What are my options now? Does anyone have an experience ...
advice from my abc friends for discussion with doctor
- By stef67 · New reply November 3, 2009
- 6 replies
- could you beautiful ladies please give me your feedback? I just had an mri done for pain I have been having in my right leg , they also had me just get a regular x ray of my right leg. This pain is not ...
specifically targeted chemotheapies based on assay tests
- By sistercare · New reply November 3, 2009
- 12 replies
- Has anyone heard of Dr. Grace in New York City? He is doing work with patients targeting chemotherapy specifically based on lab tests that identify which chemos work with your specific tumor. He is not ...
Hair Growing on Gemzar & Carboplatin
- By mlm · New reply November 2, 2009
- 18 replies
- Has anyone had their hair start growing back while on gemzar & carboplatin? My hair is growing in and I'm wondering if it is temporary or what? Literature I've read said carbo hair loss. Anyone with experience ...
Circulating tumor cell test
- By missbutterfly · New reply November 1, 2009
- 15 replies
- Hi everyone, I was just curious as to wether anyone else has had this "new" test done. My cancer center just started using this test in May and I just had it done for the first time. My result was a 1 ...
Change of Chemo
- By IWILLBEATTHIS · New reply October 31, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi Girls, It's time to change Chemo. I have been on Gemzar for 16 months and have tolerated it quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working anymore and just looking to see what else has worked ...
FASTING BEFORE CHEMO
- By sr2603 · New reply October 31, 2009
- 14 replies
- Read some interesting articles on fasting for 2 days before chemo. Recent experiment on mice showed promising results in saving good cells and chemo possibly being more effective on cancer cells. I am ...
Anyone heard of baking soda to kill cancer cells?
- By cimamom · New reply October 30, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hi everyone - I received this email from a friend of mine...I had never heard of this...has anyone else??? Guess it can't hurt at this point! BAKING SODA KILLS CANCER I was surprised to learn about an ...
Low dose Adriamycin
- By SecondtimeSuz · New reply October 30, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have been on Xeloda and Avastin for the past few months and was feeling great. Now my onc feels that my mets to my skin are growing again and spreading across my chest. She now wants to try low dose ...
Dr told sister no chemo options left
- By KathyCB · New reply October 27, 2009
- 5 replies
- My sister and I both are Stage IV but our breast cancer has different profiles. She is HER2+ ER+. I am ER+ Her2-. My sister was told that due to her low heart function (around 50%) there is no chemo that ...
My partner died
- By Yasou · New reply October 27, 2009
- 53 replies
- Yasou, my partner, died on Saturday the 17 around 8 pm. Thank all of you for your support ...
scans
- By stef67 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 8 replies
- Can any of you ladies give me some feedback on getting scans? I have stage 4 breast with mets to the bone, will be three years next month. For the most part my onc really just uses the tumor markers ...
What to do now?
- By Saraegoetz · New reply October 26, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hello Ladies, I am writing on behalf of my father, who would never do this by the way.:) He has Stage 4 breast cancer with bone and now lung mets. After 8 months of Tomoxefin (sp?) his medical oncologist ...
Navelbine/Xeloda/Tykerb
- By Bmarie · New reply October 26, 2009
- 2 replies
- Anyone on this combo or have tried it? I am adding Navelbine to Xeloda and Tykerb (been on Xeloda/Tykerb since the end of June) tomorrow. It seems a bit overwheming...first time on 3 drugs at once. My ...
treatment
- By hillbillygirl · New reply October 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- hey everyone, my new drug is femara daily and zometa back to monthly. the mets in my back are still going strong. from top of neck to end of tailbone. lots of them in lower back. also on some front and ...
Block Centre
- By XYZin · New reply October 23, 2009
- 8 replies
- Dear Ladies, Browsing the internet I stumbled upon the Block Center http://www.blockmd.com/ They use an ' integrative cancer care' (body/mind) approach in combating cancer. From what I understand, Block ...
Concomitant Chemo-hormonal therapy
- By Natada · New reply October 22, 2009
- 2 replies
- I have been searching for information on whether or not to continue on an aromatase inhibitor while undergoing chemo. It seems that old data on tamoxifen indicted that it should not be given concomitantly ...
