Dear Martin,
Thanks for your mail and the valuable information you provided. I am
meeting my mother's doctor today and hope to discuss alsternative
treatments with him. I will certainly keep in touch with evryone here.
You ahve mentioned that there is a drug that works well in combination
with CISPLATIN. Do you have the name of the drug so that I may discuss
with the doc ? Thanks again for the support. I woulkd aslo like to know
more about your wife. Bye for now......
best regards
Samudra
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>Dear Samudra,
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>ghantu@hotmail.com
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>I am not a doctor and I would say that many or most of our great
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>contributors here are not professionals in the medical community, but
in
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>many ways the people you will be communicating with here are very
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>sincere, compassionate, opinionated :), honest and caring.
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>Welcome to This Forum.
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>If I may, I believe I can answer some of your questions and also
suggest
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>some information that may be able for your Mother to avoid nausea. If
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>you wish, I have suggested to many here a anti-nausea combination that
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>works very well indeed for many or most of those that I have suggested
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>to. If you wish I will e-mail you this combination. This anti-nausea
was
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>prescribed by the hospital that gave chemotherapy to my wife.
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>AS far as treatments for your Mother. There is an abundance of
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>information about existing treatments that consists of chemotherapy,
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>immunotherapy, angiogenesis, very specific types of radiation and now
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>comes gene therapy. Pls find hope in the progress that the medical
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>community has made in all these fields. NOw, I am not a doctor, but I
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>would say if one treatment does not work for you Mother, and by the way
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>Cisplatin in combination with another chemotherapy drug has a very good
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>track record, then there are others that may be considered and
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>administered. Should your doctor, however, not find that to be true and
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>feels that there are no more treatments can be administered, then I
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>would suggest you seek 2nd opinions.
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>In the United States we call a cancer hot line which is called the
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>National Cancer Institute at 1-8004cancer and they are able to provide
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>anyone that requests, information just as you seek. YOu may wish to
call
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>them as they may be able to help you and give you names of 2nd opinions
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>in your country.
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>Pls continue to come back here and I am very certain there are many
here
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>that will be able to provide HOPE, information and love.
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>God Bless
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>marty auslander
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>Lovnish Bhatia wrote:
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>> Hi everybody,
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>> I am writng on behalf of my mother who is currently convalescing in
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>> hospital. My mother is 54 years old and is suffering from intestinal
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>> cancer. She was operated on the 5th of August 1997, and has been
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>> undergoing chemo therapy since. She was taking a dose of 5FU for the
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>> first three cycles administered to her once every three weeks. Scan
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>> results at the end of three weeks showed the spread of the disease to
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>> the liver. The drug forthe 4th cycle was thus 5FU and mytomycin
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>> combination. The fifth and sixth cycle have been Cisplatin. After the
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>> sixth cycle she has become really weak , and has symptons like
nausea,
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>> vomitting, back pain, fever etc. A scan at the end of the sixth cycle
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>> has shown an increase of the presence of the disease in the liver and
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>> the doctor's say that this is a very grim situatuion. is Cisplatin
the
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>> last alternative for this situation??
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>> Please help me by suggesting alternatives if you have any or forward
my
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>> message to the right person and put me in touch with the concerned
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>> specialists. For me a battle is not lost till it is over.. Hope some
of
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>> out there can help me. Please write to me at
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>> ghantu@hotmail.com
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>>
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>> Best regards
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>> Samudra Sen
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>> Bombay
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>> India
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>>
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