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How to interpret recent PET scan results

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Feb 22 11:24am | Replies (7)

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Quick question(s) marienewland:

So you have been on GAC for the past 3 months ? How did they decide to add the C ?

How often do they do a CA19 test? CT? how long before you were able to see the chemo was helping?

Have you had a base PET/CT and are they testing you again to see the effectiveness of the GAC?

How well are you tolerating the GAC? Fatigue, nausea, stomach pain?

thank you so much for your feedback and the PET link 🙂

Walter

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Replies to "Quick question(s) marienewland: So you have been on GAC for the past 3 months ? How..."

No actually I was referring to the poster who said they had chemo for 3 months. I started in January. Each drug in the chemo combos have their targets, but I believe it’s the platins (oxy for Folfirnox and cis for GAC) that is the most potent one in the group. Platins also can lead to neuropathy, though. I had a little neuropathy from my Folfirnox treatments which ended in June of 2023, but after a couple of months I experienced no neuropathy at all. Also, I have a very aggressive cancer my new oncologist tells me so it makes sense to attack with everything they’ve got which includes the cis particularly since the potential for neuropathy side effect for me is low. I’m on the more aggressive one right now which is 3 weeks on and 1 week off. Eventually, God willing, I’ll be able to taper off to the typical maintenance dose of every 2 weeks.