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Beckyh
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: Avastin |
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Hi there. I hope you all don't mind me posting here. I am 29 years old and was diagnosed over 2 years ago with stage 3c Ovarian Cancer. I have been on and off chemo for almost that entire time and will be starting a new treatment this month. I am posting here because I will be trying the drug Avastin and I know that it is currently used for colon cancer. I will be taking it off label in the hopes that I can buy myself some more time. My question is what kinds of side effects have people expierenced with this drug? It is so scary reading what *can* happen and the more I read about it, the more I'm tempted to cancel the whole thing! Any advice you can pass along would be much appreciated...
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brainman
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Avastin |
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Hi Becky, I very sorry to hear about your ovarian cancer. I understand why you are posting to the Colon Cancer Forum. However, you might also want to post to the Ovarian Cancer Forum.
I do not know anything about Avastin. I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking about and praying for you as you make this difficult decision.
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mninnc
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: Avastin |
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| I was on avastin for 15 cycles. The only side effect I could tie to the avastin was a few ugly headaches. Other than that I was fine. |
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Darwin
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Joined: 11 Feb 2008
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: Side effects Avastin |
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My ex husband had Avastin for 15 cycles and he had sores in his mouth and up his nose. a tingling very sensitive tongue and nausea for most of the time between cycles but it did seem to have some impact on the cancer growth. Hope this helps
Dorothy
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REB
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Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: Houston, Texas
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:54 am Post subject: Re: Avastin |
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[quote="mninnc"]I was on avastin for 15 cycles. The only side effect I could tie to the avastin was a few ugly headaches. Other than that I was fine.[/quote]
I have gotten some bad headaches and muscel aches in general. I don't know if it is the Avastin or Folfox
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