ETOPOSIDE vs FLUOROURACIL

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

Finally got my chemo schedule. Next week get my port in and start labs. Already got my chemo hair cut, #2 clipper, need to pull out my winter wool for under my hard hat. Cycle 1 is the next Monday, Adrucil- Fluorouracil, Carboplatin and 96 hrs of Keytruda-Pembrolizumab, pump coming out that Friday.

I recently completed a 7-day course of treatment using Fluorouracil / Calcipotriene 5%/.005% cream (which I'll refer to as Efucal for the remainder of this post) and decided to share my experience. I'm posting this mainly because I couldn't find many firsthand accounts from people who had used this

On October 2nd, 2024, my uncle woke up with jaundice (yellowing of the skin). My uncle was never married and never had any children, and I was the closest thing to a child, being his goddaughter. My dad was his DPOA (durable power of attorney). Scheduled a doctor's appointment, picked him up, and to

Hi everyone This may not be relevant to a lot of people but wanted to share my experience as it could save some of you a lot of wasted time and effort... So I have sebderm on my scalp and have had various patches of seb derm come and go since I was 12+ years old. I have been dealing with a particula

I am overwhelmed by information. They told him today that he will have a port placed. He has run out of sick time at work but he works from home so I'm curious what people's experience has been with WFH and being on chemo. Were you still able to work? What side effects made it hard to work? Does the

I want to post some specifics about my case. I'm doing this for two reasons. First, I'm collecting my own thoughts before I write a 2017 summary for myself and my family. Second, and most importantly, I'm going to put a lot of keywords in here so other people with a colorectal cancer diagnosis (or s

https://preview.redd.it/5qymxx6i2uef1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d936ecf1706fc2a05a5a7cbbf613ef4ec95683e5 * This Thread is going to be my Diary of My Colon Cancer Experience. Let's hope it has a happy ending. I am doing this for myself but also for anyone else who may be goin

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