Experiences with
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Experience with Yervoy/Opdivo for HCC? MD's watching scans when new area appears rather than changing treatment? MD's using a prior med?
AFP started increasing with no correlation on scans, added Sorafenib to Opdivo at half dose as couldn't tolerate full and AFP kept increasing to over 600 though minimal change in scans.
HCC (hepato cellular carcinoma ) patient survey
Have you been diagnosed with HCC and are currently on oral systemic therapy drug treatment for liver cancer (for example, sorafenib, regorafenib, nivolumab, lenvatinib, pembrolizumab, or cabozantinib)? If so, we’d like to ask for your help.
experience with seeking insurance approval for more than one first level treatment---recent denial of a new treatment
Approved Sorafenib (also first level treatment?) which MD is combining with continued Opdivo. Question re first level treatment and insurance companies as this is a new treatment that wasn't available before. Has anyone else run into insurance denials?
Starting Sorafenib soon
I’m now being treated by the Oncology service and will be starting on initial dose( 200mg po bid) of Sorafenib on 3 June. Any tips on dealing w/ side effects?
HCC PATIENT LOOKING FOR NEXT STEP
I was started on Sorafenib and took for 1 month which made me very sick. Started Nivolumab Nov. 8.
After 8 Nivolumab 240mg treatments, CT was done on Feb. 27, 2018. CT showed shrinkage of the tumor to 4.8cm x 6.0cm. My AFP was 3.2. A month later the AFP is 2.1.
Treatment options for primary liver cancer
., sorafenib) destroys cancer cells and stops the production of new cancer cells by using a variety of chemicals. Chemotherapy may be administered by mouth or through the vein; the drug(s) interrupts the life cycle of cells by stopping them from growing/reproducing.