7mm and 13mm. He took chemo: Folfox, Avastin, Oxaliplatin, and Xeloda until April 2008. The April CT scan revealed that the tumors had grown slightly and that there were four more small nodules visable. He discontinued Chemo and chose alternataive therapy with High Dose Vitamin C, and B17, changed his diet, and had some blood boosters. In August a new CT showed the good news that no new tumors were visable, but that the primary tumors were slightly larger.
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.
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. Ask your mother's doctor for something else.
will xeloda given alone treat both tumours in chest wall with mestases in liver.
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 wife also has allergic reactions to Carbo (and Oxaliplatin) and a number of other drugs. In order to maintain treatment she takes very high doses of steroids the night before and then immediately before treatment and she also has IV piriton (anti hysthamine). She needs to take lorazapam to counter the more aggressive aspects of steroid but it is meaning that she is tolerating her treatment.
She has her treatment (Oxaliplatin, 5FU & Avastin) all in one day, but it takes 8 hours.
They are talking about using chemo drugs that are normally used for bowel and other GI cancers (5-FU and Oxaliplatin) as a second line therapy. I remember that Marie3B went on to something similar.(FOLFOX?)
Does anyone have an opinion on this? Any experience? Marie3B?
Clearly my wife has no response to standard drugs so I am not suprised that they are looking in other directions. Mucinous tumors seem to lack response against standard drugs so we are quite prepared to take our chances.
The drugs involved are capecitabine and oxaliplatin, my instinct is to protect my remaining kidney by not exposing it to toxins it may have difficulty in clearing. Has anybody out there had a similar experience or has undergone chemo with similar complications?
ya...but it seems mom has two different cells one is in breast and other in liver (some he3+, i guess) ,for oncolet the breast cells are being controlled but not the liver cells ,thats why disease has reoccured in liver ,is what the reply the doctor gave me,so in order to control both,mom needs to take oncolet and xeloda together....
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.
Consider progressive metastaic disease
Oncologist suggested to start her on gemzar + avastin + oxaliplatin Just wanted to know your thoughts on this or other alternative regimens you have used with success
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.
Besides Carboplatin or Oxaliplatin, another drug (non-platinum) can be added to Doxil and the results are encouraging. Please see link:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/09/15/ovarian.cancer.drug.trial.reveals.promising.new.
Mother (66F, colon CA IIIB) is starting her 4th round of XELOX (capecitabine+oxaliplatin) and has 4 more to go. Her neutrophils are naturally low (~1.6) without chemo (possibly related to the synthroid she has been taking since 2010?). By round 2 her neutro dropped to .6 so they gave her Neupogen and stopped capecitabine for 4 days. They gave her a longer-acting version of Neupogen before round 3 and lowered the dose of oxa to 90%. Before round 4 her neutro was back down at .9.
Now we are planning the chemo and the debate is on Carboplatin + taxol vs Oxaliplatin + capacitabine. There are clearly two schools of thought and none is giving confidence that the combination will be effective. I would like to have some advice on this.
Bala
This discussion is related to <a href="/posts/Ovarian-Cancer/mucinous-Ovarian-Cancer-stage-1c-/show/1864430">mucinous Ovarian Cancer stage 1c </a>.
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.
My wife is resistant to Taxol and is now taking Oxaliplatin (along with 5-FU and Avastin) and it is working for her. My wife has Mucinous type and these are very similar to bowel cancers. This combination of drugs is used mainly for bowel patients.
Oxaliplatin is a platinum based drug, but her oncologist explained that in combination with 5-FU it works in a slightly different way so some people who are Taxol resistant can use it successfully.
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