ALL Maintenance without Vincristine

My daughter is in ALL maintenance and has stopped taking monthly vincristine due to vocal cord paralysis.

We are concerned it will affect the effectiveness of her treatment ... have others successfully dropped vincristine for the duration of maintenance?

Was vincristine substituted with another drug?

Any responses/suggestions would be helpful.

 

On 4/21/2009 MUSSAL wrote:

My daughter is in ALL maintenance and has stopped taking monthly vincristine due to vocal cord paralysis.

We are concerned it will affect the effectiveness of her treatment ... have others successfully dropped vincristine for the duration of maintenance?

Was vincristine substituted with another drug?

Any responses/suggestions would be helpful.

 

Hello there,
I'm Ryan I also have ALL and I'm in the maintance phase of treatment. I also take vincristine once a month. Is the vincristine what cause her vocal and paralysis issues? What exactly is that? If you could email me at --Message edited by CancerCompass staff. For personal protection, email address removed. Consider private reply. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html--I would be more than happy to help  you guys out and talk the best I can. Have a great weekend