Showing posts with label treatment regiment. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Treatment regiment

Dana Farber recommends doing TCK chemotherapy EVERY week for 12 cycles, then AC chemotherapy every two weeks for 3 cycles, then 3-6 weeks break to recover before surgery. Then 3-4 weeks after surgery another 4-6 weeks of radiation and immunotherapy IV every 6 weeks for a year.

In one sentence, the fun would last for a while, with the surgery sometimes in May/June 2023.

TCK: Taxol, Carboplatin, and Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)

AC:  Adriamycin (Doxorbicin) and Cytoxan (Cyclophosphamide) and Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)

Interesting, that Lahey has the same drug cocktail, as least for the first 8 cycles (didn't get much details beyond that), but every 3 weeks with much larger dosage, and worse side effects up front.



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