Sunday, January 07, 2007

Drugs being used for chemo

I wanted to include the drugs being used for Nina's chemo therapy and the schedule for any one who is interested. Week 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 iv drugs will be administered once weekly. They are: Vincristine 1.5mg this is a fast push (3 minutes start to finish). And Carboplatin 175 mg this one takes a little over an hour start to finish. Week 7 oral Temodar 200 mg for 5 days. Two week rest period of no chemo. Then the cycle will repeat itself. Length of chemo is 1 1/2 years. Chance of reduction in tumor size from this treatment is 50%-75%. Nina is sleeping alot today. She is in pretty good spirits. However she keeps asking me "why did this hapen to me Mom"? The only response I can give is "I don't know honey. I ask myself the same thing".

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