What are Topotecan (Hycamtin) Chemotherapies? List from Cancer Survivors
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Topotecan (Hycamtin) Chemotherapy Chemotherapies
What Topotecan (Hycamtin) Chemotherapy Cancer Survivors said about their Chemotherapies.
Carboplatin and Taxol, 8/11/2011. Sun-sensitive day after infusion (doesn't that sound like something you'd pay extra for at a spa?), then joint pain, peripheral neuropathy, fatigue on days three and four following chemo. Get better pain meds for next round!
Loss of hair and nausea
7-2010 IP/IV chemo x 6 cycles ( cisplatin/taxol/carboplatin)
Hair loss, extreme fatigue, abdominal pain...
11-2011 ca125 on the rise. 4/6 cycles complete of topotecan. Ca125 back in its place.
BRCA 1
Minimal side effects: reasonable fatigue and well controlled nausea.
RCHOP - 6 sessions May - October 2011
Metaxtrate - 3 sessions on my brain May - October 2011
R- ICE - 3 sessions Feb 2012
Mini Beam -2 sessions December 2012 and January 2013
R- GDP -3 sessions March - April 2012
Side effects - My hair fell out 100% not one hair left. Completely bald! A feeling of sickness twenty four hours a day without actually getting physically sick. Tiredness and becoming neutropenic regularly.
2/2015-abraxene and carbo, 8/2015-cistplatinum, 1/2016- cist and topitican, then clinical trial, then doxcil with carbo, just stopped parp after 85 days, starting avastin abd chlorophamide (sp?)
Have had chemo continuously for 2 years