MDs May Not Recognize Late Effects of Cancer Drugs - MedPage Today

A majority of the PCPs could not identify any of the late effects associated with cyclophosphamide, paclitaxel, and oxaliplatin. They were most familiar with doxorubicin toxicity, but only because 55% recognized cardiac dysfunction as a late ...

5-Fu + Cisplatin vs 5-FU + leucovorin + oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) with unsure stage roughly 2 or 3 - American Cancer Society

Don had both of those - he had chemo on Wednesdays and radiation 5 days a week. Lab draws every time prior to chemo. Don had some normal fatigue and really didn't feel good on the the 2nd day after the first chemo treatment. The following week the chemo ...

Genta Reports Results Of Tesetaxel Confirmatory Trial - RTT News

The company said that the 2nd-line study enrolled 53 patients who had progressed on at least one prior chemotherapy regimen that included a platinum compound (cisplatin, oxaliplatin, or carboplatin) and a fluoropyrimidine (5-fluorouracil, capecitabine ...

Genta Announces Results of Tesetaxel Confirmatory Trial in Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer - Marketwatch

This 2nd-line study enrolled 53 patients who had progressed on at least one prior chemotherapy regimen that included a platinum compound (cisplatin, oxaliplatin, or carboplatin) and a fluoropyrimidine (5-fluorouracil, capecitabine [Xeloda(R ...

New cancer drugs held up by the NHS for nine years as rationing body accused of letting down patients - Daily Mail

The average delay for multiple drugs given the green light in 2005 was 8.7 years. They included treatments for bowel cancer (irinotecan and oxaliplatin) and cancer of the womb (topotecan and pacilitaxel). In 2006 NICE approved three Alzheimer’s drugs ...

Antipsychotic medication relieves chemo-related nausea - USA Today

About 22% of primary care doctors knew that another drug, oxaliplatin, also sold as Eloxatin, can cause nerve problems and pain in the fingers and other extremities. • About 27% knew that the drug paclitaxel, or Taxol, can cause these nerve ...

Mets to Liver - Radiation? - American Cancer Society

Mets were identified to the liver and to the peritoneum. I've been on chemo since then - first cisplatin + gemcitibine (which didn't shrink the masses) and then 12 rounds of folfirinox (oxaliplatin + irenotecan + 5fu pump). With that regime the masses were ...

GI Cancers: Promising Data Across the Board - Medscape News

REAL3 looks at the combination of epirubicin, oxaliplatin, and capecitabine with or without panitumumab. [6] There will be an Intergroup report looking at the adjuvant chemotherapy comparators of conventional 5-fluorouracil leucovorin vs a much more ...

Doctors often unfamiliar with long-term chemo risks - Reuters

The doctors were asked which of five side effects they had observed most often in their practices or seen reported for each of four widely used chemotherapy drugs: doxorubicin, paclitaxel, oxaliplatin and cyclophosphamide. The researchers found ...

Many Primary Care Docs Don't Know Long-Term Effects of Chemo: Survey - YAHOO!

Both types of doctors were asked to identify side effects of four commonly used chemotherapy drugs for breast and colon cancer: Adriamycin (doxorubicin); Eloxatin (oxaliplatin); Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide); and Taxol (paclitaxel). Fifty-five percent of ...