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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.
Camptosar
- By bkitty · Posted October 13, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello to all. Hope you're doing well. Last week my Onc. decided to start giving chemo called Camptosar. We're hoping it will be less toxic on liver cirrhosis yet still get in there and fight off cancer ...
zometa and Parkinsons
- By blindchi · New reply October 10, 2009
- 3 replies
- i had a mastectomy in Jan. 2009, cancer then traveled to the T7 & T8 in my spine. i have just finished radiation to my vertabrea and fear starting zometa. i have Parkinsons in addition to cancer. i live ...
The Straight Poop
- By Beachbabe · New reply October 8, 2009
- 38 replies
- My Friends~ I've never been a super dooper pooper (phrase stolen from a video that helped teach my now 13-year-old son to potty train!) Add in the meds I'm currently on, and it has become a full-time ...
Living with brain mets in the UK: American friends please advise us!
- By lamorna · New reply October 8, 2009
- 9 replies
- MartyJoe74, BurnleyAnne and Lamorna are hoping to learn from you all once again.... Martine of Northern England continues to fight on faced with multiple liver mets (responding to Herceptin) and very ...
Anyone experienced this regiment?
- By jas2009 · New reply October 7, 2009
- 2 replies
- Taxotere (w/Decrodon&eye drops) Treatments once a week for 3 weeks combined with 4 Xeloda & 5 Tykerb Daily. Then Herceptin and zometa on the skip week ...
NEWBY - is tamoxifen enough?
- By XYZin · New reply October 6, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hi Ladies, I am writing on behalf of my mother. Apologies for the long story below, but we are just lost. We have browsed this forum and we are so happy with all the experience and stories of all you ...
Have you heard of this?
- By TellMeWhy · New reply October 1, 2009
- 10 replies
- Good Morning, I was recently given this info, and have not had the time to research it. I know our own GrooveyGirl, is the quasi expert on much research, and was wondering if she or a few of you would ...
"Inactive" ingredients-Taxotere
- By maryk58 · New reply October 1, 2009
- 11 replies
- Since all of you are my confidantes, confessors, comic relief, and comrades, I'm about to 'fess up. I was just reading that taxol/taxotere contains alcohol! Alcoholism is my second incurable disease ...
xeloda and h/f problems
- By dfleaman · New reply September 26, 2009
- 6 replies
- I just finished my 4 cycle of xeloda and h/f is very bad. Call my dr and asked him to lowe dose. I am taking 3300. I have my zometa in 2 weeks and he wants me to stop taking xeloda until I see him. He ...
Do I stop what is working, to go on trial?
- By littleflower1215 · New reply September 24, 2009
- 4 replies
- I have mets to the lungs, ¤tly am on Taxotere, Navalbine, and Herceptin. After two full cycles, the Pet scan is showing great improvement, in my lungs and surrounding soft tissue. The Taxotere is ...
Zometa and chemo
- By maryk58 · New reply September 21, 2009
- 9 replies
- I've been on Zometa (every 4 weeks) since Feb 09 and several different hormone therapies (femara, faslodex, and progesterone/testosterone) since July 08. The femara worked the best but then lost its punch ...
Surgery
- By clay · New reply September 20, 2009
- 12 replies
- Ladies, time to break my silence. Need to know what you have experienced. Diagnosed year and half ago. Have done the taxol and avastin route. No progression but now have added the femara and dropped the ...
Having Doubts
- By mrsmas · New reply September 19, 2009
- 32 replies
- Maybe I'm nuts, but after losing my entire summer to this insidious disease, and being diagnosed with lymphedema, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired so I'm having some doubts about future treatment ...
Acities from liver mets
- By brendajean · New reply September 18, 2009
- 11 replies
- I have bone and liver mets and have had asities for over a year. my abdomen looks like I'm 6 month pregnant. I had a severe thyroid deficiency and since that is resolving, the fluid in my abdomen has ...
Nausea
- By JuliePa · New reply September 17, 2009
- 10 replies
- Sorry , no one wants to deal with this but maybe for you that have have a solution. I started Xeloda (pills ) 1 week ago and had my 1st Avastin infusion on WEd. I have been sick to my stomach and yesterday ...
Started Whole Brain Radiation
- By Yasou · New reply September 14, 2009
- 8 replies
- Thanks to everyone who gave me words of encouragement. I appreciate them more than you will ever know. I am usually a strong person (after 15 years you have to be) but this news was so unexpected that ...
Mets to brain--I need your support and advice
- By Yasou · New reply September 13, 2009
- 12 replies
- I am devastated. I found out today, that after 15 years of having breast cancer, 10 years metastatic to the bone, that I have 7 tumor in my brain. On Friday of last week, my medical oncologist gave me ...
Spinal Mets
- By StickiVicki · New reply September 12, 2009
- 4 replies
- Thought this might be of interest to those with spinal mets. I found it at http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles /163075.php and have copied the first paragraph below. New Surgical Procedure Improves ...
Taxol/Avastin or Xeloda
- By cancerkicker · New reply September 12, 2009
- 15 replies
- I really would like your adivice on this one so I hope you answer me. I have had mets for 14 months. Hormonals have quit working. My local doctor is recommending my first chemo to be Xeloda. My MD Anderson ...
Abraxane and Avastin, Anyone not losing their hair?
- By bonemets · New reply September 11, 2009
- 9 replies
- I was recently diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer with bone mets (sternum) and 1 lymph node. I had radiation and started Abraxane and Avastin in August. I was told that my side effects would be minimal ...
