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Chemotherapy Discussions

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Troble From The Port
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My daughter has breast cancer and had a port in for the chemo. Two weeks ago . She had the fiirst rounfd of chemo with no problems except low white blood cells....
001/16/06 Message Rating
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Essential Thrombocytosis
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I was diagnosed with essential thrombocytosis last nov. they have not yet put me on oral chemo the dr said my levels were just below and he didnt want to put me...
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Changing The Paradigm of Chemo...
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Thirty years of randomized clinical studies point to the need for changes in our approach to the chemotherapy of the most common forms of adult cancers. Despite...
001/12/06 Message Rating
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Urgently Need Help~weakness Sk...
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I am so worry about my mother. My mother has had the chemothrapy after a brain cancer operation. However, the cancer cells still alive and she still needed fe...
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Pulmonary Fibrosis
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My father tolerated 40 radiation treatments and weekly chemo without adverse affect. He the had 2 weeks off and then 2 months of weekly chemo, no more radiation...
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Irinotecan - Heart Failure???
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Hi, Finished 6 months of treatment with irinotecan in June 2005. About 3 months into the treatments, I started becoming very short of breath. Shortness of br...
001/02/06 Message Rating
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Nauseau Control. Ativan, Marij...
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Just started chemo 2 weeks ago . Adriamycin and Cytoxin. Did fine for the first 12 hrs then all hell broke loose. vomiting and diarrhea every 30-45 min. 12...
601/01/06 Message Rating
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Erbitux Reactions -- Any Ideas...
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Hi, I started Erbitux four weeks ago. First treatment - no reactions. Second treatment -- major rash on chest and back, scalp covered with itchy bumps and bes...
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White Blood Cells
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My mom is currently being treated with FOLFOX with avastin for colon cancer that has spread to her urniary tract tube. She has had 3 treatments, but has had to...
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Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma
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my father was recently diagnosised with this type of cancer they want to start chemotherapy right a way. though i keep ready that it does not respond well to c...
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Tarceva
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I have NSCLC (non small cell lung cancer)diagnosed in 2/03 and was treated with surgery and radiation. June this year I had nodes (supraclavicular lymphnodes) "...
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Tarceva
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My wife has been on Tarceva for about a month now, and it seems to be helping her much more than the chemo did (carbo and taxol). She has not developed a rash ...
109/21/05 Message Rating
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Constipation
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Hi, Any ideas on what to do for constipation and nureopathy induced by chemo. Rose
009/20/05 Message Rating
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Gtx Resistance-can You go Back...
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I am curius-has anyone found that they have become resistant to GTX and then can use the G again in a new combination, for instance with Oxaliplatin or Carbopla...
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Xeloda
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Today I went to start my 3rd cycle of topotecan. But my C.A was up from 392 to 700. So did not get my treatment but my oncologist gave me a prescription for xel...
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Questions About Chemotherapy
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Hi, There are some questions that I would like to ask, so that I can help my sister coup with the chemotherapy. She has had one treatment so far and her hair...
008/24/05 Message Rating
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Fatigue on Doxil
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Hi, my name is Kathleen. I am a long time cancer survivor, but have only started on chemo a little over a week ago. Since starting on chemo (Doxil), I have...
108/08/05 Message Rating
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Erbitux
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My husband has been on Avastin but it seems to have stopped working. He started on Erbitux but stopped after one session and after re-reading all the literatur...
007/23/05 Message Rating
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Alitma
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Hi guys, My name is Bill and my wife Gail has just been diagnosed with stage four metatastic lung cancer. She has had small cell twice before first time 7 yea...
307/13/05 Message Rating
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Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal C...
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Anyone have info on which hospitals offer this type of therapy? Also, your own info and experiences with this type? My father has a rare type of colon cancer,...
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Chemo & Neuropathy
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I now receive Navelbeine every week. Prior to that I received Taxol weekly. I began getting a neuropathy with the Taxol that is getting worse with the Navelbein...
307/01/05 Message Rating
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Memory and Language Problems
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I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last June. I am now in remission after 4 rounds of chemo and major surgery. The problem that I'm having now is (still) mem...
106/01/05 Message Rating
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Reply to 'hubby Just Diagnosed...
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I am a 48 yeat old male and on round 4 of 6 of FOLFOX treatment for Stage IV colorectal cancer that moved to the lung after 2 years of remission. In my limited...
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Male Fertility
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My husband had hodgkins and went through ABVD chemotherapy a few years ago. I was wondering how the chemotherapy can effect fertility and if it does effect it, ...
104/19/05 Message Rating
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Docetaxel [taxotere]
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Hi all. I have stage three lung Cancer.Been thru yhe first chemo. and radiation three years ago and have been fine until a month ago. My oncologist has given me...
004/12/05 Message Rating
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