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Hi, was reading few posts which said their Chemo was of 30mins duration!! In India, the Chemo duration is 6-7 hours!! Might be the medicines are different?? of technology!

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Janny1306

Must depend on treatment ... my husband sat through 9 hours every 3 weeks (central UK. teaching hospital)

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Rebec

You can ask the name of the chemical used and post it here or look it up.

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lovesradio

My treatment took about an hour each time. Depends on many things including which cancer, which drug, weight of patient and so on!

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CherylNorman

No two treatment regimens are alike. My Herceptin lasted 30 minutes, but my six chemos lasted about four hours.

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