I found a great one for liver mets from colorectal cancer that is FDA approved. It is called SIRT. I suggest you find a forum that is only for colorectal cancer. You can google that too. With the cyberknife I found that it all depends on the size of the tumor. Also it depends on how aggressive the radiologist is. It varies. I hope there is one nearby. ...Hope this helps...
Xeloda is a very harsh drug. I was prescribed oral Xeloda together with infusions of oxiliplatin, but had to discontinue the Xeloda. My body smply could not tolerate the drug and while taking Xeloda I lost more than one pound per day, snd had relentless nausea and terrible pain in my hands and feet. After one three-week cycle my doctor discontinued the Xeloda. I was able to complete treatment with the oxiliplatin. This was in 2004 and I am cancer free today.
5KGS AT 5FT HEIGHT, WE ARE TREATING THE METS WHICH HAS GONE TO HER LUNGS AND BONES AND LIVER WITH XELODA 1GRAM TWICE A DAY FOR 14 DAYS, AND THEY SCARED US WITH THE SIDE EFFECTS,BUT WE ARE ALSO GIVING HER HOMEOPATHY. WE ARE GIVING A GOOD NUTRITIONAL DIET ALONG WITH A PROTINEX SUPPLEMENT. ON 5TH OF FEB IS HER APPOINTMENT WITH THE ONCO. I HOPE XELODA HAS ARRESTED THE GROWTH OF CANCER CELLS. IF IT HAS CAN YOU TELL ME HOW MANY CYCLES CAN SHE TAKE WITHOUT IT DOING MUCH HARM.
My Husband has Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer he is on treatments for a clinical trial Avastin, Xeloda, Oxaliplatin He has been on the Trial since early March 2010 he was diagnosed the end of February 2010 He is 35 years old and other then the Cancer has been in perfect health the treatments started off well but he developed stage 3-4 Neuropathy in August in his hands and feet. They have continued with the trial with just the Avastin and Xeloda which he is still taking.
However, there are certain new drugs, like bevacizumab or trastuzumab (these are antibodies which target specific molecules in the cancer cells responsible for growth) which, when added to the usual chemotherapy, enable them to overcome the tumor's resistance to the drugs. Adding Bevacizumab to Doxil can, in theory, allow your mother to use Doxil again.
I was treated with Adriamycin/CYTOXIN Along with 33 rounds of radiation. I was also on tamoxifen for 10 mos. and have since had a local reoccurrence in the lymph node in my neck. The lymph node has been removed and biopsied and came back the same as before. Weakly positive ER 20%.,Her2 neg. PR neg.. i'm concerned that the tamoxifin did not work. My oncologists is deciding between xeloda , a chemo pill or arimidex. Any thoughts?
My mom took Xeloda also as a maintenance drug for colorectal cancer. Typically diet and exercise do not affect CEA levels; however, inflammation can affect it. Sometimes CEA levels will rise if there is any type of inflammation. I know this is a scary time. Feel free to send me a message if you need to talk.
Approx 1 year later she had a positive node/nodule removed. Within a month, the breast cancer started in her skin around the site of the node. She now has a red rash (skin mets) in approx half of her chest wall and is getting Chemo (Xeloda) and Herceptin. My question is, the skin is beginning to "harden" around the node removal surgery site. What does this mean? Any other comments on Skin mets would be greatly appreciated.
my platelets dropped in a period of about 3 weeks from 165 to 56, to me this seems to be very quick.
I am on Xeloda and the onc is thinking this may be the cause.
my question is, if the Xeloda, or bone marrow mets were responsible for the drop, wouldn't it be over a period of time and not just "whammo" down it goes.
I was feeling really well until one day when I was off colour and the same day had a really bad nose bleed that seemed to last forever.
s attending physician for proper management. The CT scan findings showed breast cancer with metastasis or spread of the cancer to the other organs mentioned. Factors such as her complete medical history, symptoms and results of other diagnostic tests are important considerations also. Take care and best regards.
My mother is 6 years older than your father and her colon had a tumor that went all the way through and they removed the tumour but has metastised to her liver and lungs.She is on xeloda oral chemo as a palliative treatment to try and control the symptoms.Her oncologist is absolutely wonderful and she didnt lay it on the line to my mother she is doing it as the need arises.
My onco tried me on taxol, and avastin, then xeloda. Neither of these worked. He suggests that I try Jemzar. I have stage IV mestatic breast cancer that has spread to my spine. I was dx in Feb 2002. I have previously been on different chemo.surgery, hormonal.. arimidex, aromosin, fasoldex . and several radiation treatments. I am undecided on doing any more chemo. My cancer , of course , is er/pr positive. Is there any advice on this chemo. or is there another hormonal I could try.
Hello there. Sorry you didn't get a prompt answer to your question. Is there any update to your situation? Losing hair is traumatic. I fully understand this. I think a triaged approach to what you want from your treatment would help and am sure you discussed this with your doctor. First and foremost, that the treatment is effective and purging the cancer and putting you into remission. But retaining your hair can also be on the list of things you would like.
Anyway, your information that there are new drugs for treating metastatic breast cancer in trials is very encouraging (?). Oh for the brain I had before chemo fog! I have been dealing with this disease for over 10 years now and I am working towards living for another 30, no matter how much my husband cries. Thanks again and if you find any other info with regard to treating my type of cancer I would be very grateful to hear about it.
Shielah.
the result was the removed mass was another kind of cancer which is colon cancer. now she has double cancer (ovarian & colon).
She needs to start the chemotheraphy after we came back
It was 4 cycle of carb/taxol following by 4 cycle of xeloda
in the beginning of June she took the first cycle of carb/taxol & after 21 days another doctors advised to change the treatment to Taxol/cisplation & 5FU.
I am taking Xeloda and hoping that will help shrink this huge tumor. I cannot take infusion chemotheraphy for this as my side effects were so extreme the first time that Xeloda seems to be my only choice. However, I mostly would like to know what sort of bandages I could use if it breaks through and what can be done to diminish the rancid odor.
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,,for fluid retention SPIRONOLACTONE ORAL ,INJECTION them ENOXAPARIN for prevents blood clot,for pain control FENTANYL 115mg 2 parch and given to him HYDROMORPHONE 1.2mg every 1hr cont THIS DAY BUT BEFORE 1 MG EVERY 10 MIN DELIVERY WENT HE PUSH THE BUTTON ., but now he is constispation full, they give to him lactobacilus ,enema every day,and METHYLNALTREXONE injection by e.v they say word with the opioids analgesis for constispeccion.
You never see or hear about WALK FOR LIVER DISEASE or any other fund raising events for research. Cancer Treatment Center of America did not even have a color ribbon representing the cause to fight primary liver cancer like they do for Breast Cancer and other cancers.
I hope this is not it for him and new discoveries in a way of naturapathic can help. I did hear about Live Liver Donors for liver cancer transplants. Let me know if you have heard about this.
He is a member of AACR-American Association for Cancer Research, CRI-Cancer Research Institute and WCR-Worldwide Cancer Research which is a charity that funds research projects into any type of cancer, anywhere in the world. Some of their recent research projects are focused on herbal therapy,less of chemo and some recent developments have been discovered. I'm sure your case would fit in perfectly cos my mom was a beneficiary. Do not be discouraged by the negatives.
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