#39673 02-02-2006 12:45 PM | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16 Member | OP  Member
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16 | Anyone have any information or gone through this treatment
P.Silveira
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Caregiver to Dad SCC Stage III T2N1M0 left hard & soft palate, left Node Dx 8/17/05, Neck Dissection 9/6/05 clear margins, Rx 30 ended 11/9/05, Still not cancer free. + path, agressive, upcoming chemo
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#39674 02-02-2006 12:48 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 | Are you not refering to systemic chemotheerapy, (which most is regardless of the particular chemical used)?
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#39675 02-02-2006 12:53 PM | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16 Member | | OP Member
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16 | Yes, sorry...The hands move too fast
P.Silveira
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Caregiver to Dad SCC Stage III T2N1M0 left hard & soft palate, left Node Dx 8/17/05, Neck Dissection 9/6/05 clear margins, Rx 30 ended 11/9/05, Still not cancer free. + path, agressive, upcoming chemo
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#39676 02-02-2006 01:09 PM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 | Systemic Chemotherapy is, by definition, drugs (any drug) which travels through the blood stream affecting cancer cells (Chemotherapy). There are many different cancer fighting drugs all have side effects.
Darrell
Stage 3, T3,N1,M0,SCC, Base of Tongue. No Surgery, Radiationx39, Chemo, Taxol & Carboplatin Weekly 8 Treatments 2004. Age 60. Recurrence 2/06, SCC, Chest & Neck (Sub clavean), Remission 8/06. Recurrence SCC 12/10/06 Chest.
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#39677 02-04-2006 08:50 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 | There are drugs that have become standards that doctors have experience with in this cancer, and while they do not cure oral cancer, they are used in conjunction with radiation to sensitize the malignant cells to the radiation or there are those drugs that are systemic in nature used to control possible mets of the disease if it leave the local/regional area. The newest family of drugs are not systemic poisons as those we have become accustomed to, and these are actually antibodies. Erbitux falls into this group. They fill up a receptor site in the malignant cell where a protein normally goes, and they prevent the cancer cell from reproducing. So you can see that there are many types, and in each type many individual drugs and more coming down the clinical trial pipeline all the time. Right now, there is no chemotherapy agent that is curative for oral cancers by itself.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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