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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Majority Of Doctors Don't Know About Long-Term Chemotherapy Risks: Study - Huffington Post

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lack of Awareness of Late Drug Effects in Cancer Survivors - Medscape News

Nearly all oncologists (97%) also recognized that peripheral neuropathy is associated with paclitaxel and with oxaliplatin, but only 26.9% and 21.8%, respectively, of PCPs also knew about this late effect. Both sets of physicians showed the lowest ...

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 ...

Colorectal Cancer: New Drugs, Emerging Paradigms - Medscape News

This is an abstract, and I am really going to look at the data. The chemotherapy used in that study was FOLFOX [leucovorin, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin], which raises the question of biologics; would they help? I am wondering: With this adjuvant ...