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Starting Chemo Taxotere/docetaxel, what to expect?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 23 10:32am | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
Yes, please do share! I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs about this so that everyone can be warned. I'll start a new post tomorrow to try to find others who had sepsis following docetaxel. I've heard of another case that happened about a month before my father died (same oncologist, and patients talk).
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I’m so sorry for your loss. Do you mind if I ask what are CRP and procalcitonin? My husband may potentially be going on docetaxal for treatment. Also, how old was your dad when he started chemo and did he have any other underlying medical conditions? Thank you for sharing your experience.
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Severe responses to chemo are not uncommon, but I have not heard of sepsis and I attend weekly Advanced prostate cancer online meetings at Ancan.orb. Have done it for about four years and people come in and talk about their problems, but nobody has mentioned that, that I recall..
One person recently had his 3rd Docetaxel and it caused water in a lungs. He took two extra weeks off and went back on a 60% dose
Another Ancaner had it in both lungs and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
You could go to an ancan.org meeting. There is one next Tuesday at 3pm pacific time.. You could warn everybody about this risk. Find out if over the many years, they’ve held these meetings that Somebody has had the same thing happen.