Informal Poll - Where were you treated and what was your chemo?

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  • RosesToeses
    RosesToeses Member Posts: 721
    edited November 2013


    If you're interested in how the different kinds of chemo came to become standard, this blog post explains it well, I think: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/10/30/so-chemotherapy-does-work-after-all-revisited/


    (FYI, the blogger is a breast surgeon, but his blog deals with a lot of different things, many not remotely related to cancer)

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  • RosesToeses
    RosesToeses Member Posts: 721
    edited November 2013


    I could have sworn I'd already posted my treatment here, but it looks like I didn't do it after all!


    Everything at Lahey Hopital and Medical Center (can't say enough good about that place!): Surgery, 4 DD AC followed by 4 DD Taxol, 28 days of rads (bolus every other day), now tamoxifen

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  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 690
    edited November 2013

    Thanks Rosestoses for the link!  


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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited November 2013


    Roses, I love Orac, but didn't know he was a breast surgeon. He has a post about coffee enemas that makes me crack up every time I read it.

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  • RosesToeses
    RosesToeses Member Posts: 721
    edited November 2013


    I think he's controversial enough that I wasn't sure I should post it, but he explains it so well.... Most of the time I find Orac very enlightening and amusing, although sometimes the things he tackles are just plain depressing--coffee enemas (which I admit I do not understand to save my life) are a particular pet peeve of his on the very amusing side!

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited November 2013


    Roses, I think he is spot on with the coffee enemas. The only thing to understand about them, I think, is that we are all ready to do some crazy shit (ooops, pun!) if we think it will keep the cancer away.

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  • sherry67
    sherry67 Member Posts: 556
    edited November 2013


    I had my tx at the Fane building at the Miriam Hospital in RI...Neo chemo first Carbo/Abraxane/herceptin than MX followed by 4DD A/C followed by the rest of my Herceptin and Rad now I'm on tamoxifen...

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  • ruthie1967
    ruthie1967 Member Posts: 16
    edited November 2013


    Coffee enemas? Good grief!


    My chemo was FEC x3 then D x3


    FEC made me continually vomit until midnight on the day (despite all the antiemetics) and then I slept ok, waking the next morning just feeling mildly nauseous. I was then relatively ok for the rest of the time until the next cycle.


    Docetaxel made my stomach swell up like I was pregnant, gave me numbness in the fingers, feet and I was so puffy, (short of breath), I could hardly get up the stairs. Bleeding nose... And the neulasta too made my body ache so much..

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  • TectonicShift
    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited July 2020

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  • sherry67
    sherry67 Member Posts: 556
    edited November 2013


    Tectonicshift,


    I was in a clinical trial first and after surgery I was told more chemo for insurance purposes...No Taxol just th AC

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