I am scheduled to begin chemo this coming Monday and my first IMRT the day after that. The nurse at my cancer center tells me that their method of delivering Amifostine has essentially eliminated the problems with people getting instantly sick from it. She says they do two small subcutaneous injections - one in each arm. She said she hasn't had a patient get acute nausea/vomiting in a year. Does this sound accurate to anybody else? Everything I've read on this forum about Amifostine sounds like the majority of patients get n/v very quickly (30 minutes or so) after taking it. I know there are some who have been able to tolerate it but this nurse is saying they've tweaked their system enough that it doesn't cause these acute problems any more.

The nurse is very experienced in oncology and has worked at this center for years - but it seemed like what she described was too good to be true after reading all the horror stories about this drug. Just wondering if anybody has heard of such a thing and if it works so well, why wouldn't they be doing the same at other cancer centers?