After four rounds of VRD, my sister prepared for her stem cell transplant (SCT). The heavy chemo, Melphalan, before the introduction of the new cells, and the new cells themselves, restart your immune system. It is such a violent restart that your childhood vaccinations disappear. Many MM p...
Lack of quality of life thanks to permanent damage stemming from 16 rounds of chemo, 8 surgeries, and 33 radiation treatments. Unmanaged chronic pain due to fibromyalgia and chemo induced peripheral neuropathy and medically induced menopause. Being told by two white women when I was working at a...
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3, 2019, that Vance had been diagnosed with cancer exactly one year beforehand and had since undergone 28 rounds of chemo. The teen "stayed VERY positive, focused and kept his life as normal as possible... every single day," his dad wrote. "Kid’s a tough son of a bitch. Sha...
put a solid plan in place that I would get a port within the next few days, then do four rounds of AC chemo (aka the ‘red devil), then do four rounds of dose dense Taxol, putting me at 16 weeks of chemo, followed by an axillary dissection to remove the rest of my lymph nodes...
I began 16 rounds of chemotherapy on May 1. The process was tough—and 20 weeks long. I didn’t have much energy and I struggled with anxiety because there were so many unknowns: What if chemo doesn't work? What if the cancer spreads? What if treatment works, but then ...
*I’m one of the few people on the list whose dog did not actually die of lymphoma. Gadget’s chemo was effective for lymphoma, and he was in remission. Unfortunately, he developed mast cell cancer four months into his lymphoma treatment, and that is what killed him six months after he...
For Kate,leaning on her husband of 13 yearswas crucial as she went through rounds of preventative chemotherapy. "It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family," she said in herMarch video. "Having William by my side is a great source of comfort and...
Whatever the dose of chemotherapy drugs may be, any dose is too high. Chemo drugs create a broad array of health problems. Unfortunately, the modern treatment for each symptom is another dose of drugs − each with more side effects to be treated. Take a look at a few drugs, their side...
We knew she coul d never fly, so the director aske d me to glove train her.In the spring of 2013, I was diagnosed【小题4 】 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma(巴瘤).I h a d stage 3, which is not good, so I wound up doing eight months of chemo (化疗). Lost t he hair- the whole ...