Well the trial I was eligible for was the neo-AEGIS trial, either standard Chemo of a less severe Chemo with Radiotherapy. This was a randomised trial and I drew the standard Chemotherapy known as EOX. This entails 3 sessions of Chemo before the operation and 3 sessions afterwards. This seems a bit much considering with the Radiotherapy trial there was no further treatment after surgery. The idea of course is to shrink the cancer prior to surgery, and also to deal with any mastites that might be lurking around the body, by giving a mixture of 3 types of poison, Epirubicin and Oxaliplatin intravenously every 3 weeks and Capecitabine tablets twice a day every day. Sounds grim. Apparently if the cancer doesn't shrink they will still operate anyway. My cancer staging is 3,0,0 it is localised so I asked the logical question why not operate now and do the Chemo afterwards. Unfortunately the system is the system and it will not be moved!
No comments:
Post a Comment