CAPECITABINE vs ETOPOSIDE

This is a Hail Mary y’all. I work in specialty oncology as a tech, scheduling patient refills. The “insurance specialists” are of 0 help and never have been. I’m trying to bill capecitabine to med b, last fill was $40 copay and this month $600. Patient does not want to pay cash. We’re (me and pt) t

Age: 57 F Height 5ft 7 Weight: unsure Hello Doctors of reddit, I need some help. I'm getting really anxious about my poor mum who was diagnosed with locally advanced bowel cancer. She's really struggling with the chemo regime and she's too weak to have surgery at the moment I just need some answers

I am taking capecitabine, irinotecan, and cetuximab. I have fortnightly blood testing and they've shown my platelets are low. My specialist cancer nurse and my oncologist are aware of this and have given me advice. I asked if there were lifestyle changes I could make and they said "good nutrition, c

**Age**: 27 **Sex**: Female **Height**: 5'9 **Weight**: 230 lbs **Race**: White **Duration of complaint**: December, 2016 **Location (Geographic and on body)**: I'm in Toronto, Ontario. Recurrent sinus issues. Extreme congestion and runny nose, sinus pressure, occasionally flares into post-nasal dri

Male - 50 Diagnosis / Problem • Metastatic gallbladder adenocarcinoma (non-local lymph node metastasis) • Palliative treatment: Gemcitabine-Cisplatin chemotherapy + Durvalumab (commenced September 2023) • Molecular testing: IDH1 and FGFR negative • New disease progression: Omental disease detect

My mom (54F) was diagnosed with Stage 1 rectal cancer last month and is currently 5 weeks post-LAR operation. She didn't require an ileostomy and is currently recovering well at home. Initial biopsy (from colonoscopy) showed Intramucosal carcinoma with Signet Ring Cell features. Final pathology afte

F(33),ex sports player, ex smoker , no drinking, I used to party a lot in my 20’s tho , no drugs, I drink 2-3l water, mostly Mediterranean diet and some sweets once in a while. I do long walks 3-5 hrs daily. I don’t do any sports now or gym but I’m a very active person like extremely active. 75kg 1

Hi everyone, I’m writing to this community because my family and I have reached a point where we feel completely lost. I’m hoping to hear about your experiences or any thoughts you might have on our situation. A bit of background: Last year, my mother (female; Age:57, Height: 164 cm, weight: 64kg, n

As a survivor of testicular cancer I want to take every opportunity to raise awareness about testicular cancer as this is a cancer thats risk pool closely mirrors my demographic, the demographic of this sub, and Reddit as a whole. It is the most common cancer among men between 20-34 years of age an

God, I don't even know where to begin. I'm so depressed. And it's weird because the first time I had cancer back when I was 17 actually brought me out of a major depression. See, I had been so sickly and unwell for months before the actual cancer diagnosis. They misdiagnosed me with and treated me f

This past November I went to work as usual, only to arrive at my customers home feeling a bit off. After apologizing for being under the weather I proceeded to head back home, thinking I had a bit of a bug. By the time I made it home I was in pretty significant pain, and after trying to sleep it o

As the title says I just had an experience which put me in the hospital for 4 days. A little background context: I am a fairly healthy 42 m and was diagnosed with testicular cancer back in March, had surgery in April to remove, and began discussing follow up in May. My doctor and I decided that beca

Hi everyone, I was recently diagnosed with a rare type of ovarian cancer. I've had the main tumour surgically removed, and right now I'm going through fertility preservation before I can start chemo. I've been looking into tips and tricks for dealing with all the side effects from chemo and I've see

Hello everyone! In January of 2021, my father began to have some abdominal pains. He had a history of these pains, always taking Tums on a regular basis. Tums would normally help, and if it didn't Mylanta or Maalox would do the trick. This time was a little different however, where his pains would n

I pulled the evidence out of the file and then stuffed it in a drawer and piled other papers on top of it. I wanted it to look like it wasn’t of interest if someone went looking. But the little slip of paper that told me he was a dirty liar? I kept that. Read it. Took a photo of it and hid that phot