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My mom's chemo stopped working. Any thoughts or experiences with this?
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May 21, 2012 - 9:49 pm
Hello My mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian cancer in October 2011. At this point her cancer was inoperable and she was told to start with carbo/taxol. She had 2 rounds of chemo and her ca125 went from over 3000 to in the 100s. At this point, my mom had an unsuccessful debulking surgery. They gave her a complete hysterectomy but could not get the tumors that lined her mesentary. At this point she has had 2 more rounds of carbo/taxol since the surgery and her ca125 numbers began rising. Thus, the chemo is no longer working. The next course of action is to do a ct scan to see if the ct scan matches what the ca125 numbers tell us. Then if the carbo/taxol is not working they are going to put her on abraxane. Does anyone have any similar experiences or advice? I'm so worried because abraxane only works 20% of the time as a second form of chemo treatment. |
Joined: Feb 2011
Abraxane is albumin bound taxol. Would the doc consider gemcitabine? It seems to be a second line chemo for a lot of women.
Hope all goes well.
Joined: May 2012
Honestly, I am not sure why she chose abraxane as the next form of treatment. That is a good question to ask. We didn't have a lot of time in our last meeting with the Dr. to ask questions. It was sprung on us that the chemo stopped working. I will ask about that drug you mentioned. Thank you.