CISPLATIN vs ETOPOSIDE

Hi everyone. I am here because my husband has bladder cancer. He has been undergoing chemo since March. This next week was suppose to be the 12th week, and final infusion. This week, we received a strange call from his oncologist's office. They said the Dr. needed to speak to us. Due to coronavirus

31/Male 138lbs Asian/White Diagnosed late September with stage 4 signet ring adenocarcinoma of the urachus after partial cystocopy/partial bladder removal. Currently doing radiation to reduce tumor growth on spinal column and just completed my 6th cycle out of 10. Waiting to hopefully get into a cli

Why do I get so many advertisements, including on this site, making me aware of the PACIFIC data and role for this drug in unresectable lung cancer? Isn’t this 100% standard of care by now? What oncologist doesn’t know about this? This feels like getting ads akin to: “Click here to learn about cispl

Age:52,Southern Europe,Medications:vitamin/mineral supplements In January my dad was having problems with balance and after a MRI it was diagnosed with a water-filled cyst in right cerebellum,after surgical intervention biopsy came back and it was metastatic adenocarcinoma that was confirmed by a C

I’m hoping any oncology pharmacist out there might be able to help me. I’m a nursing manager of a new outpatient chemotherapy clinic. We are expanding and recently lost our pharmacist. We have yet to find a replacement, and in during this time, I’ve been tasked with writing some infusion guidelines

27M - 6’7”, 225lbs. White. Generally healthy before cancer. Bad at Reddit format. Diagnosed with stage 3 seminoma in July of this year. Had surgery and did four rounds of etoposide and cisplatin as chemotherapy. Seminoma did not present physically, only presentation was severe back pain. I have had

Demographics: 32 years old, male, caucasian. 5'-11", 225lbs. No drinking, smoking, or drug use. **Symptom History:** Back in July, after a relapse of my testicular cancer, I had major surgery (see below). In the week following, I had mild shortness of breath in the hospital but O2 levels were fine a

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