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Ovarian Cancer: Should I go on Maintenance Therapy?
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I have had avastin with my chemo which just finished. I have experienced high blood pressure, recurrent headaches and now have learned I have extremely high lipids which were never a problem before. Now chemo is finished and I believe the plan is to continue avastin, and will know the plan after scans are done in a couple of weeks.
I have reservations on doing this due to the side effects I have suffered already and don’t know if there is any true benefit or need. There was nothing in my genetic study to hitch onto for assurance doing it would be beneficial and what I have read seems to indicate IF there is benefit it would be only months.
It’s very difficult to know what to ask and what decisions should be made.
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What did you do? What was your experience , I share your concerns of yester year.
I just finished my 6 chemo treatments, my oncologist suggested maintenance treatment of one year with avastin, every 3 weeks, my CT scan and CA125 all showed no evidence of disease, I developed high blood pressure during
Chemo treatment which included avastin and control it with 2 blood pressure medicine. the oncologist also suggested it is up to me if I want maintenance treatment - how was your plan
and did you take avastin? Maybe you can share your experience?
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Hi Katycot, this is Karen M and I am in a similar situation where I am trying to decide if maintenance therapy is worth it for someone who has no genetic indicators that PARP therapy will be beneficial. I was diagnosed with stage 4 a little over a year ago and have had 9 chemo sessions and debulking surgery. Is there anyone on this discussion with no mutations who is taking PARP inhibitors?