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Discuss questions, comments and worries you have relating to clinical trials.
- By amandax28 · New reply July 8, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello everyone, my mom was diagnosed with stage 3 Ovarian Cancer in January 2009, she had her last chemo treatment just a few weeks ago and now she is continuing with the clinical trial, Avastin for one ...
- By Kristardh · New reply July 2, 2009
- 18 replies
- I was diagnosed in June 2006 with stage III ovarian cancer. I had taxol and cisplatinum. The first 2 rounds, they tried IP in addition to my regular port. The IP port failed and did a lot of tissue damage ...
- By aquilega · New reply June 21, 2009
- 12 replies
- Hi is anybody on the Ovature trial? If so I would be very interested to know how you are getting on. I have been on it for some months now and am progressing well. Aquilegia ...
- By sueoz · New reply June 16, 2009
- 50 replies
- Hello again my beautiful girls. I thought I'd just post another thread relating to PARP inhibitors because today I was finally told that I could start on them. I was on a clinical trial comparing Doxil ...
- By CATSMEOW · New reply June 4, 2009
- 5 replies
- I had my abdominal tumor out last tues at u.of penn.Had enough for the vaccine trial.I will start on chemo again because I have tiny size tumors on my colon and abdominal wall that dr. says chemo will ...
- By agg22 · New reply May 20, 2009
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- Hi everyone, I was just curious about something. My mom is stage IIIc with positive retroperitoneal nodes. She is optimally debulked with no visible residual tumor. When we were first discussing therapy ...
- By OldieLocks · New reply May 15, 2009
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- I am in a clinical study called NKTR-102 PEG Irinotecan and after two treatments, my CA125 is 16 down from 88. The two spots on the omentum have shrunk. This is good news for me as I have been dealing ...
- By MinnieM · New reply May 9, 2009
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- Just wanted everyone who is big in research to check out the new drug A6, which is working its way through FDA bureaucracy and should be released for Phase II clinical trial in the next 3-6 months. The ...
- By nancyt · New reply May 4, 2009
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- Hi All- I was first dx.'d in May 2005-and had my first recurrence in July of 2008. I was asked to take part in this drug trial and am on my second month of taking this drug (or maybe a placebo-it's a ...
- By ohmama123 · New reply May 2, 2009
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- I apologize if someone already posted this - I hadn't seen anything posted about testing this vaccine in the US. I copied the link but also pasted the article below the link. http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channe ...
- By kss1204 · New reply April 19, 2009
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- We are in no way endorsing this trial only making the information available... If you have questions please contact the person listed below. I am only posting this to share and am not affiliated with ...
- By K-rol · New reply April 17, 2009
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- hello ! i m french , 27 years ovac stade IV i doing clinical trial since 5 march , carboplatin/taxol/avastin (ICON7) i want know your opinion concerning avastin and if anyone else out there on this trial ...
- By Dee09 · New reply March 29, 2009
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- Hi all, I know there's been a lot of discussion of Avastin, but I'm wondering if anyone is on the same trial that I'm on - six cycles of IP/IV cisplatin and taxol with IV Avastin then 11 more months of ...
- By chewbarod · New reply March 26, 2009
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- Hello- My mother was recently diagnosed with Stage IIIc ovarian cancer. She had optimal debulking sugery and had a port put in. We have the opportunity to either do the IP/IV treatment (taxel/cisplatin ...
- By Jane4 · New reply March 19, 2009
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- Hi, After 4 years fighting ovac, (IIIC), including 3 major surgeries, and 3 rounds of chemo, my cancer came back again. This time, I enrolled in a clinical trial at NIH, involving avasten and sorafanib ...
- By Susan5 · New reply March 15, 2009
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- Hey: Anyone else out there doing the Avastin/Carboplatin/Gemzar clinical trial?? Recovering from the side-affects of the first cycle and want to know if it gets worse with each additional cycle or if ...
- By sueoz · New reply March 14, 2009
- 34 replies
- Hello beautiful girls. I'm Sue and I'm from Australia. I've been visiting the forum on and off since about November last year but I've finally decided to post! I love visiting this site and listening ...
- By energygirl · New reply March 5, 2009
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- THIS IS ENERGYGIRL TELLING ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN A NEW PROMISING CLINICAL TRIAL BEING HELD AT NUMEROUS LOCATIONS, PHASE II WHICH IS USING A TARGETED THERAPY DRUG THAT GOES AFTER CANCER CELLS ONLY ...
- By OldieLocks · New reply February 24, 2009
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- Anybody heard of this? I thought I would be starting on Doxil today, but my oncologist said my cancer is still there and growing, but not rapidly. He gave me some choices to consider before we do anything ...
- By Brandi · Posted February 22, 2009
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- Has anyone had experience with the Phase II clinical trial for this A6 drug to possibly avoid / delay recurrence? I read the criteria and it is for women who have an increasing CA125 but no evidence of ...