TCH versus TCHP

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I was thinking back on my experience with treatment and additional blood labs ordered by my naturopathic oncologist and it got me wondering so I thought I would put it out there. I was severely depleted by extended breastfeeding, overwork, and chronic dehydration which caused me to be really off in some key nutrients. My naturopath was the one who looked, though the blood labs were easily done through my hospital. My zinc (serum) was low, copper (serum and ceruloplasim) was super high, ferritin (serum) was really low, D3 was low, and magnesium (serum, later RBC magnesium)was very poor.

It is specilated that in additional to any microcellular avtions of the cytotoxic drugs that the nutritional depletion they cause also contributes towards their affects on malignant cells. They wont tell you this but if you read the prescribing information you will find that taxol-baded drugs push out potassium and platinum-based drugs push out magnesium.

This brings me to the science of treatment. If my malignancy developed in a depleted state, with very low magnesium, then presumably adding carboplatin was unnecessary. I question its use in my case since it further depleted my body and possibly wasnt needed since my BC responded so thoroughly to systemic treatment.

Separately, since I did have an early recurrence, or my brain met was there all the time, carboplatin does pass the blood-brain barrier so perhaps it thwarted my recurrence for a while. It might have benefited me in other ways, as yet unknown.

Why were you offered THP versus TCHP? Do you know? Did you ever have your nutritional staus evaluated