On 5/15/2008
Angel of Hope wrote:
Hi Irene, I'm Lin and was also diagnosed stage IIIc in April 2006. Like you had the surgery debaulking etc. Have had three cycles of chemo..carbo/taxel, caelyx, and gem/carbo..although these three stabalized the condition at time of treatment as soon as I finish my CA125 climbs again! at the moment I am waiting for an appt re further surgery, known as interval debaulking.
I was so sorry to hear that you lost your mum at such a young age and that your sister too has OC.( a friend of mine was diagnosed at stage 4 6 years ago and is doing well, she has a very good response to treatment) I have not heard about Famara but maybe it is called something else here in the UK. I will investigate. I have heard that Avastin works for a lot of people but here in the Uk it is down to funding!
I do hope you are feeling well and be nice to keep in touch,
Kindest Regards
Lin
Dear Angel of Hope:
Nice to meet you Lin. I assume from your response your from the UK and Femara is used mostly for breast cancer patients same premise as tomoxafin. It's a estrogen inhibitor, which the research was done by cancer research UK. John F. Smyth, Prof of Med Oncology at University of Edinburgh led the research program. I believe this treatment strategy is just to hold off of chemo as long as possible. Iam sorry your CA rises so quickly. How did you handle your chemo treatments. In total how many did you have? Where you allergic ? My sister had 8 or 9 cycles of carbo/taxol, once every 21 days. I had IP treatments, which is a port in the stomach and given once one week in your arm vein, then 2 times the next week in the port in the stomach every 21 days. This was with Cisplatine/taxol and I also had Avastin added in a clinical trial. These treatments were very rough. Had many side effects and only got 15mths of remission. My oncologist is trying to hold off of chemo but on June 20th I'll know if I start chemo again and he talked about carbo/gemzar. I see you took that how were your side effects. Did anyone in your family have this disease and how were you diaogised? Good luck with surgery. Keep the faith. Stay positive!
My husband did alot of traveling to London with business five years ago.Been their once myself and I loved it. We had such a wonderful time.We went in the month of December and weather was very cold. You conjurred up some wonderful memories. I hope to hear from you again,soon. God bless, Irene