Postby BUD2016 » Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:52 am
Hi Meatie,
Our onc has mentioned ramucirumab (Cyramza). I am planned to discuss more with him in the next days.
My mom unfortunately progressed on Folfox + Avastin, so they are not able to do cyber knife at this stage. She only had 1 treatment of FOLFIRI + Avastin and second is tomorrow. We -rescan in July after 4 treatments and then decision will be made if anything needs to change or new things added. She is KRAS mutant.
Are they adding Ramucirumab to your mom's existing treatment and replacing Avastin with it? I am not too keen to drop Avastin, but not sure how it works.
Thank you.
09/2016: Mom dx/rectal cancer
10/2016: Open surgery. T3N0/Grade 2
11/2016: PET/CT scan shows 5 liver mets in both lobes
11/2016: FOLFOX + Avastin started on her 71st birthday
KRAS gen 2 G13D mutant, BRAF Negative, MSS
03/2017: Oxi stopped after 9th tx, 5FU cntd. CT scans w/ contrast every 2 months - small shrinkage/stable
05/2017: PET/CT progression, started FOLFIRI + AVASTIN
07/2017: MRIs/CT stable
09/2017: MRIs/CT - min progression
09/2017: FOLFIRI + CYRAMZA
11/2017: left us