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Oxaliplatin is no walk in the park, advice for CAPOX regimen?
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Did you lose hair? I was told these medications don't have hair loss? I will be taking pills (14 days) and infusion 1x per 21-day cycle. Also, I worry about how hard the pills are on your stomach. They said to take with food but not sure yet what will help. I start on the 3/28.
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Yes... I do believe, like most chemo regimens, the Xeloda pills are a bit rough on our digestive tracts. Understand that I've not done Folfox, FLOT, or Capox... I only did the CROSS protocol of Carboplatin and Taxol along with concurrent radiation treatments. I tend to call what I did, the CROSS protocol... baby chemo. I don't believe it's as rough as those other regimens in general. But I also should qualify this by saying when used as a first-line treatment. In general I believe 2nd and 3rd line treatments tend to give us EC patients more difficult side effects. But this is just my observation when talking to hundreds of other patients.