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Chelee · 02-20-2011, 05:28 PM

KDR,
I have never had Gemzar...but my Mother was battling advanced lung cancer and was on Gemzar at one point. She was 77 yrs old so I was worried about the SE's...especially with her other health issues. But she did really well on it. She even told me it wasn't bad at all. She had been on several chemo's and the others were hard on her compared to Gemzar.

I remember she didn't lose her hair on Gemzar either. It thinned out a little bit but not much at all. Her biggest complaint if you want to call it that was some fatigue...other then that she did really well on it. Hope that helps some?

Chelee

02-20-2011, 05:28 PM	#8
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Re: Gezmar KDR, I have never had Gemzar...but my Mother was battling advanced lung cancer and was on Gemzar at one point. She was 77 yrs old so I was worried about the SE's...especially with her other health issues. But she did really well on it. She even told me it wasn't bad at all. She had been on several chemo's and the others were hard on her compared to Gemzar. I remember she didn't lose her hair on Gemzar either. It thinned out a little bit but not much at all. Her biggest complaint if you want to call it that was some fatigue...other then that she did really well on it. Hope that helps some? Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.