Hi!
Have you given any thought to getting an opinion from Dr Kemeny and the HAI pump
At Sloan?
Julie and Lete
Stamford, CT
mpbser wrote:It's the standard dosage depending on where you look. NCCN guidelines say 130, other places 85.
mpbser wrote:hart2hart, I didn't see your question for some reason until now. No, we are not interested in MSK and are very happy with Mass General.
Exactly, CRguy.
re:: Ox dosage... I think the people citing the 130 mg/m2 number are discounting my husband's comorbidities. 130 mg/m2 is the standard for the average person but 85 mg/m2 appears to be the standard for older patients and those with comorbidities (such comorbidities tend to go hand in hand with older chronological age, but of course unhealthy living quickens the biological age as it has for my husband).
mpbser wrote:Hi Beckster, That's interesting re: 3000 mg of Xeloda. Did you do rounds of 3 weeks or 2 weeks?
Also, re: HAI pump (cc'ed from another thread I commented on): Someone on my thread "meeting with liver surgeon tomorrow" suggested we look into the HAI pump. I read some of these links and it looks very interesting. I'm surprised and saddened that it isn't more widely available. It appears to be used primarily for "nonresectable" liver mets. My husband's liver mets are resectable, so I can imagine that insurance would not cover this treatment if he sought it.
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