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Anyone on Gemcitabine with Abraxane? How long? Effective?
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Nov 10 9:07pm | Replies (171)Comment receiving replies
My husband is on his 6th cycle but they have had to lower dosage and has missed one treatment while his platelets get back up to a safe level. CA 19-9 down from over 4000 to 600. No growth. Has anyone else had the platelet and dose reduction issue? He is 3 weeks on, one off.
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I had chemo that didn’t work for Pancreatic cancer- so the just put me in this and after the first treatment I still had horrendous side effects and the white blood cells were so low they put me in every other week
Yes after first treatment so I had to change to every other week
Had to lower my husbands dose after first session. He is on his 6 session of 2 on 1 off. He started with C-19-9 of 16,000. Now down to 187. It went up last month by 70 points
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When I started Gem/Abraxane my WBC dropped and my neutrophils count was 1.07 They reduced the following session to 85% strength. That was the only time when they reduced the strength of the dose. Since then I am on full 100%