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dawn · 07-08-2006, 04:53 PM

Im trying to understand the abbreviations for the treatment regimes. Im on 6 treatments of taxotere, adriamyacin and cyclophosphamide. I do my cycle every three weeks and it takes about 3 hours to complete. While doing the hour of taxotere I have to soak my finger nails in ice. Does anyone else out there do the same treatment or does this sound really off base. In my community I dont know of anyone else on it. My oncs are fantastic as are my nurses and they always try to help anyway they can.
Dawn

07-08-2006, 04:53 PM	#17
dawn Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 153	Im trying to understand the abbreviations for the treatment regimes. Im on 6 treatments of taxotere, adriamyacin and cyclophosphamide. I do my cycle every three weeks and it takes about 3 hours to complete. While doing the hour of taxotere I have to soak my finger nails in ice. Does anyone else out there do the same treatment or does this sound really off base. In my community I dont know of anyone else on it. My oncs are fantastic as are my nurses and they always try to help anyway they can. Dawn __________________ Dawn Mar 2006Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu 3+++, Er & Pr positive, 8 of 18 pos 03/14/06: Mastectomy 04/19/06 started Chemo adriamycin, chlophosphamide, taxotere 25 rads Nov 1, 06: 3 years Tamoxifen, Herceptin (1yr) Jan 2009 Femara mets to bone aromasin and aredia June2009: Full Histerectomy 2/22/2010 6 spots in liver 2 mm-10 mm: switched to xeloda and Herceptin will continue with Aredia J Scan February 2011 new onc, switch to abraxane April 2011 NED clear organs, 3 spots on bone scar tissue. Scans August 2mm spot on liver and lungs. now on to tykerb/xeloda Dec 2011 scans nothing on lungs, liver down to 1 2 mm spot. j une 2012 another spot on liver on to cisplatin/gemzar.