Oxaliplatin is a coordination complex that is used in cancer chemotherapy. These platinum-based drugs are usually classified as alkylating antineoplastic agent, although they are not actually alkylating groups (they function by a similar mechanism)...
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I developed a pretty severe reaction to oxaliplatin, but continued on FOLFOX through ...again, and this time no oxaliplatin for me. Apparently you can ...a lifetime. This time I'm on the FOLFI...
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...and doing well. She has slight neuropathy in her fingers ...her chemo week. Her doctor wants to remove the oxaliplatin to reduce and prevent her ...because we know the oxaliplatin is an impor...
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I'm also on xeloda right now for my rectal cancer with oxaliplatin but and have LBM but can be controlled by anti diarrhea pills. Aside from that I my nails has darkened but...
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I had my oxaliplatin cut by 25% the last ...really has helped with the neuropathy. My hands and feet ...the cold. They cut my oxaliplatin because the numbness went to my tongue...the...
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...generally cisplatin is the most toxic. The neurosensitivities are generally less with carboplatin than with oxaliplatin and my father has ...due to his age and concurrent use with pemetrexed.)
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...when I was on oxaliplatin, I had Kytril with ...just had Compazine and Ativan for nausea. They worked great as ...some nausea after the Compazine. It worked for me. Only vomited one, 5 day...
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...any nauseau except the zofran they give me on the first day. ...few treatments the neuropathy from oxaliplatin kicked in. Just remember all ...Btw I've taken all the oxaliplatin I can take...
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...a treatment plan. My husband was on FOLFOX for three months ...after he had an allergic reaction to oxaliplatin. He has tolerated both well--the ...treatment that gets his cancer under cont...
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...know if it was my xeloda pills or my oxaliplatin/irinotecan combo infusion I got on ...I do know, that the nausea was worse than anything ...with your mom, I feel her pain...
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Well, I will start my Xeloda and oxaliplatin on Wednesday, May 1 and feel much better about it than I did ...well. I am so fortunate to have found my cancer when I did, through a routine colonosco...
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