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they just switched my treatment

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victor53
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Jul 24, 2008 - 4:16 pm

i went and camped out at doctors till he looked at me then he sent me to radiation onc because of rapid growth of tumor and lymphnode (see previous post)
Well now they switched me to just cisplain (sp)
everyday, weeks 1, 4 and 7 and radiation every day and twice on friday. They said just cisplain alone no chemo mix. So now i need to find out about this treatment. The erbitux carboplatin and taxol i was on shrunk my stuff in half but then aftre 10 days of my 2 week rest period it has blown up again.
train-nut
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Jul 24, 2008 - 5:30 pm
Re: they just switched my treatment

I also had three component induction chemo. It's intent is to attempt to shrink the carcinoma. It often takes radiation to completely kill the cancer. The platins (carbo and cis) sensitize the cancer cells to the radiation. It is a one-two punch that worked well for me. You are on solid ground with the new tratment regimen. That big damn machine is going to zap all the bad guys! Rich
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soccerfreaks
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Jul 24, 2008 - 7:45 pm
Re: they just switched my treatment

I had a similar plan as well, accompanied by rads five days a week (but not twice on Friday). While people react differently to different chemotherapies (and I know this because others warned that my current chemo tx, precautionary after a lobectomy would make me very sick, and it has done nothing of the sort), I will admit that the cisplatin diet caused me severe nausea for a couple of days.

Train-nut is not indicating such a problem in his post, so maybe it was just me. Again, everyone is different.

I am glad that you took SOMEONE'S advice and repeated your attempts for immediate medical help.

I would like to add to train-nut's advice about how to kill cancer that there IS at least one other possible solution, depending on type and location, I suppose, and that is to REMOVE it.

Take care, and good luck with the new tx.

Joe

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