I just heard on the news (then later read here) the latest news that Procrit and another drug used to prevent anemia are now not being recommended for people with early stage head and neck or breast cancer , the article and news report I saw on CNN seemed vague about why--something about "evidence they could cause tumors to grow".

Well I had both those cancers, both in remission, and also had procrit when I was getting cisplatin (although at that time to the best of anyone's knowledge I did not have any tumors since I was early stagefor both cancers and had surgery before chemo and rad). And I don't even know if the procrit helped that much! It didn't prevent me from becoming so anemic by the end of treatment that my RBC numbers were just a hair away from requiring a blood transfusion.

Anyway, I am just wodnering if anyone here has a reference for these clinical trials that showed some risk. I'd like to klnow what actually was done and what was found.

Nelie