Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 319 | Added to DonFoo's excellent message, you should be aware that the purpose of the -platin chemo is to prevent cancer cells from dividing (reproducing) during the attack on them with radiation.
You seriously want to question your lead oncologist about this omission, and don't accept anything but a clear explanation that you are comfortable with, if they persist in not giving you the chemo.
The worst of the worst chemo is over and just a memory after 90 days.
In my view, it would be very short sighted to agree to avoid a relatively short (in the context of the rest of your life) unpleasantness in favor of a risk that could lead to a recurrence of the disease.
You do not want a recurrence, trust me on this. You are young and will throw off the effects of the treatment quickly. Don't blow your ONE chance of a long lifetime, for a reduction (NOT an elimination) of the (short lived) unpleasantness of the treatment.
Please!
My intro: http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post16364409/09 - Dx OC Stg IV 10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad 11/09 - PET CLEAN 07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver) 06/12 - PET CLEAN 09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver) 04/13 - PET CLEAN 06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node) 10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective 11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres 02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node 03/15 - Begin 15 Rads 03/24 - Final Rad! Woot! 7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!
|