Staging and treatment options.

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jmn
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Joined: Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:20 pm
Location: New York/Philadelphia

Re: Staging and treatment options.

Postby jmn » Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:58 pm

Like Beckster, I was on Xeloda for six months. I took 6,000 mg daily—two weeks on, one week off. Side effects included skin darkening, rashes, occasional fatigue, some dehydration, and elevated creatinine levels; I didn’t have any problems with diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. All in all, it was very manageable. I worked the entire time—on a demanding job that required frequent travel—and maintained a pretty normal, fairly active lifestyle despite also managing diabetes and high blood pressure.
DX: CC, 7-9-18 @ age 61, male
Severe anemia (4.5 g/dl), 5-11-18; colonoscopy, 6-29-18
Lap-assisted right hemicolectomy, 7-16-18
G2, cecal adenocarcinoma, 4.2 x 3.7 x 0.7 cm
Stage IIB, pT4aN0 (first pathology DX: pT3N0)
0/24 lymph nodes, LVI present, PNI present, surgical margins clear, MSS
CEA: 3.0 (pre-op, 7-10-18); 0.7 (post-op, 8-8-18)
TX: Xeloda (capecitabine), 10-16-18 to 4-21-19
5 years of clear scans and colonoscopies :D
Released from MSK surveillance, 7-20-23 - NED :D

camicom
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Joined: Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:39 pm
Facebook Username: david galloway

Re: Staging and treatment options.

Postby camicom » Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:54 pm

jmn wrote:Like Beckster, I was on Xeloda for six months. I took 6,000 mg daily—two weeks on, one week off. Side effects included skin darkening, rashes, occasional fatigue, some dehydration, and elevated creatinine levels; I didn’t have any problems with diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. All in all, it was very manageable. I worked the entire time—on a demanding job that required frequent travel—and maintained a pretty normal, fairly active lifestyle despite also managing diabetes and high blood pressure.


Thank you
6/17 Colonoscopy 5cm Malignant Neoplasm in Transverse Colon
CEA 1.2
Stage 3A
BRAF Neg
11/23 CT scan showed multiple Liver Mets
12/03 MRI showed 35 Liver mets largest being 2cm many very small Not resectable
12/10 CEA 4.5nl
12/11 Port Placement
12/12 Liver Biopsy confirming tumor same type as before
12/17 Started FolFox with Avastin
3/21 MRI Showed average 40% shrinkage and tumor inactive or dead
4/15 Started 4000mg daily of Xeloda as Maintenance
6/24 CT scan showed no growth, everything stable

CF_69
Posts: 109
Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:44 pm

Re: Staging and treatment options.

Postby CF_69 » Thu Aug 08, 2019 2:12 am

I forgot about the skin darkening.

My skin is pretty fair. Normally I burn then go back to normal, maybe a shade or two darker after the burn heals. I generally don’t spend a lot of time in the sun. I like to be outside, just in the shade.

My drivers side arm is noticeably darker than the rest of me, and much darker than I’ve ever been previously.
47 at diagnosis
Rectosigmoid junction
Adenocarcinoma
2.8 x 1.8 x 3.5 cm
G2
T3N0M0
CEA:
December 2018 - 1.9
September 2019 - 2.5
March 2020 - 2.3
September 2020 - 2.5
Xeloda / radiation x 25
Laparoscopic LAR April 2019
0 of 12 nodes
Stage 2A
4 cycles of adjuvant Xeloda
MRI on liver for 2mm hypodensity not suspicious.
Clear CT - September 2019
Clear CT - October 2020


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