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Cancer Support

onethatcares

(16,639 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2015, 04:52 PM Mar 2015

so we start chemo again on Monday [View all]

as a preventive measure the oncologist today decided my wife would undergo 4 months of chemo using the drugs Xelada/Cisplatin.

Reading the side effects is frightening but he said although the cancer was removed there may still be cancerous cells throughout her body just begging to unionize and really do damage.(I like unions, I just used the term)

Geez, she's been doing really well and now on to this section of treatment. Hopefully it goes as well as her surgery.

I hope you all are doing as well as possible, Peace to ya all.

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so we start chemo again on Monday [View all] onethatcares Mar 2015 OP

Thinking of you locks Mar 2015 #1

I'll be thinking of you both. Solly Mack Mar 2015 #2

Preventative chemo after treatment is a tough decision ... slipslidingaway Mar 2015 #3

yeah, it's a damned if you don't onethatcares Mar 2015 #4

Wishing all goes well ... slipslidingaway Mar 2015 #9

I think the chemo is a wise choice for her. Hope she has smooth sailing sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #5

Not familiar with those meds Tab Mar 2015 #6

I also had my tumors surgically removed but had to do chemo for same reason wordpix Mar 2015 #7

thank you for the info. onethatcares Mar 2015 #8