Experiences with

Oral chemotherapy

Hey Warriors - just had my 12 week blood work since the end of chemo and then also radiation. PSA now at .08 - thats the lowest I have had since contacting this prick of a disease. End of chemo was .52 and .48 so pretty significant. The plan now is to test again every 12wks/3mths and act only upon

Hi all, just to give you an update on my journey towards my *Allogenic Stem cell transplant, my transplant team @ Addenbrookes Hospital are working towards me starting chemotherapy at the end of July with the transplant taking place approx one week later at start of August. I have one more appointment

I think I might be clutching at straws here, anybody have anything similar. Apparently it's rare as hens teeth.I had a 5 kilo terratoma removed, it was on my left ovary. Also my appendix,left ovary and omentum along with 7 litres of fluid. No chemo as they were happy with everything. This all happened

After 5.5 years on Lupron (no Zytiga, Xtandi, Daro, etc.), my PSA hit its highest points ever (1.92), although I'm still not 2 points above my lowest reading of 0.5 (only one of those). I'm metastatic and was at diagnosis, so still have prostate. I've been researching Provenge a bit, and understand that

Hi folks! Haven't been on here for some time but in the interim I have been treated for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. Had chemo in September last year which was successful (minus a few hiccups like fungal pneumonia that put me in ICU!) and currently on home oral chemo, antifungals and antibiotics daily

Sorry I am unloading here because some of you guys will understand. I was diagnosed 19 years ago at age 45. I was single then. Life was okay for a while. Then lupron kicked in. I have had no libido for 18.5 years. I’m an only child, Mom passed 23 years ago and I lost Dad 2 years ago. One month after

Hi everyone, my mom is currently being treated with only letrozole after a year of chemo which didn't work very well (she is 100% Er and Pr). She took it for 5 months after taxol and it worked much better, now she has a follow-up Pet scan after another 5 months. I wanted to know if any of you have successfully

Hi My husband has been taking Effexor for hot flushes and it does not seem to be effective any longer . He increased the dose from 37.5 to 75 mg and that did not seem to make a difference. He has been off Effexor now and the oncologist is saying to try the low dose Estradiol patch . To be honest we

Hello - I received quite shocking news during my visit to the Mayo Clinic last week. My PSA has jumped to 344 from a low of 3.6 last November, when I completed chemo with cabazitaxel. PSA did start to rise quite soon, into double digits, but this is by far my highest PSA ever. Dr. Kwon recommended

Dad is going to start ADT shortly. He has bone mets One MO said to start with Zoladex and after two weeks to add xtandi ( starting 40 mg ) The other MO says to start only Zoladex and will think of xtandi or zytiga later at some point , maybe when Zoladex starts being less effective. He says if

My mum is 89 on chemo, plus she has dialysis 3 times a week. She's also got AF and leg ulcers. She's been on pramiproxal for years and still suffers with RSL. The GP took her off that and put her on quinine but this doesn't do anything for it. They now want to take her off quinine due to the kidney

Two years in to my de novo high volume metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis, I am pleased to report excellent results so far with triplet therapy (Docetaxel chemo completed, Abiraterone ARPI, Firmagon/Degarelix GnRH antagonist as ADT). However I would be grateful for any advice today. My ALT has fallen

Looking for a possible explanation. Diagnosed Oct 2021. HG serous carcinoma stage 3c peritoneal/ovarian. I am on 4th line chemo carbo/gem ( I have found this the most challenging so far). Debulking was in March 2022 and I recovered extremely well. Since then I had some abdominal cramping just

hi I am about to embarque on my third chemo session the last two have been awful due to nausea which lasts about a week it’s so bad I struggle to eat and force myself to drink . Any suggestions gratefully received I should say that I am prescribed anti sickness which I was loathe to take but this time

Well had my bowel resection 8 weeks ago my concerns about general anaesthetic because of ET and never had operation before was unfounded surgeon said I woke up quick was mobile in hours didn't require painkillers ,got out of hospital on day 3 now having preventative chemo starting Thursday my faith

Anyone over 80 years who has taken triple therapy - first and second generation ADT as well as chemo ? Could you please share how your experience of it was.

Good evening all, I would just first like to introduce myself to you all, as I have only just joined this group and I am very lucky to have a space like this to come and speak my mind. Also, apologies for the long message, if you'd rather skip to the point I'll leave a bold asterisk next to it

We saw my Dad's MO on 5/23. Over the course of 4 weeks my dad's PSA moved from 1.46 to 2.14, He said we need to be on Zytiga for three months before we can deem it a failure, but just like Xtandi, it appears my dad had limited help with it. We have talked about the next steps, chemo and pluvicto. My

Tall_Allen, if you are around, I would especially appreciate your thoughts…….my husband, Dave is still on Lupron/Zytiga/Pred for M1a pc. only in a few abdominal nodes per PSMA scan. He just completed IMRT and was undetectable two weeks ago. Have you ever heard that the progression of soft tissue mets

Antibody drug conjugates with chemo. Developed for AML and being expanded to other cancers. Probobly well known but in the news. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cancer-fighting-antibodies-inject-chemo-directly-tumor-cells-upping-ef-rcna153773?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign