Started on avastin, a biological that does not harm good cells but acts to starve cancer cells by limiting each cancer cell's blood supply, on 8/20/09. Tomorrow will be my 2-year anniversary on the treatment. And next month, 9/25/11, will be the 5th anniversary of my ovarian cancer surgery. Grandson Tyler (4+, b 11/11/06) wasn't even born when I started chemo and Jenna (2, b 5/15/09) arrived after I had had 12 doses of taxotere and carboplatin, 5 doses of topotecan, and 4 of doxil. Since she was born, I've had 3 doses of cisplatin and gemzar and 12 of toxol. The single digit treatments were stopped when they proved ineffective. All of the chemos had nasty side effects and killed good stuff along with the bad. Thank you for all your prayers and support. I'm still here.
Friday, August 19, 2011
2-year anniversary on avastin
Started on avastin, a biological that does not harm good cells but acts to starve cancer cells by limiting each cancer cell's blood supply, on 8/20/09. Tomorrow will be my 2-year anniversary on the treatment. And next month, 9/25/11, will be the 5th anniversary of my ovarian cancer surgery. Grandson Tyler (4+, b 11/11/06) wasn't even born when I started chemo and Jenna (2, b 5/15/09) arrived after I had had 12 doses of taxotere and carboplatin, 5 doses of topotecan, and 4 of doxil. Since she was born, I've had 3 doses of cisplatin and gemzar and 12 of toxol. The single digit treatments were stopped when they proved ineffective. All of the chemos had nasty side effects and killed good stuff along with the bad. Thank you for all your prayers and support. I'm still here.
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