On 7/22/2008
Gator wrote:
Hi All - Does anybody have insight to the chemo drugs Cytoxan and Taxotere? Everything I read seems to be negative. In a nutshell, my 46 y/o wife had stage 1, lymph node-negative breast cancer , with the tumor being under 2cm. The oncologist has informed us that she wants to administer this Cytoxan and Taxotere cocktail every three weeks for a total of 4 treatments...this along with the usual tamoxifen treatment and radiation. We're not sure what to do because my opinion is that this seems to be a bit extreme based on the circumstances...or maybe not.
Any opinions?
Thanks for the help.
Seems like very aggressive treatment to me. Maybe things have changed? Do they really give chemo for Stage 1, node-negative? When I was diagnosed in 1998, I had a masectomy. Radiation was a given, but the deciding factor of whether or not chemo was warranted was whether or not it was in the lymph nodes.
I would question it myself. I am currently undergoing treatment for Stage IV metatstatic breast cancer - bones and liver. I asked the dr. why I should assume chemo would work now, since it apparently didn't do anything 10 years ago, when they gave it to me as "insurance" - an adjuvant setting. The answer was "Chemo works on fast-growing cells. When we give it in an adjuvant setting, the cells are in a dormant stage - non-fast growing, therefore the chemo doesn't affect them." OK, so why did they put me through all that?
Also, a note to ALL cancer patients: sugar feeds cancer. Stop eating it. The alternative practitioners have always told us that. My regular onco dr., a professor, and researcher, at a world renowned cancer center, recently confirmed it is true. Maybe they could have told me that 2 1/2 years ago when the cancer was found to have come back, so I could have cut out sugar then??????? What's up with that?