Hi
I have had 6 taxotere and was booking in for 9. However there has been a very slight growth in my lung and liver 1 --2 mm. Obviously the onc doesn’t think there will be any benefit to continue the Taxotere so she has proposed a trial - which i am happy to accept.
I’m just worried that if Taxotere is meant to be the Gold of all chemo and it has stopped been effective with me after 6 sessions does this mean that i am really going to struggle for any of the other chemos the respond well. I have triple negative so chemo is the only option available to me - i must admit I’m kinda of worried about this side of things.
On a positive note I have been offered a trial that is for triple negative patients only, it is comparing 2 drugs one being Xeloda and the other being a name i can’t remember but will ask today when the study nurse gets back in touch with me. It’s somehting like sinnibtum (that’s probably totally wrong!) Anyway this is not a chemo but one of these drugs that stops the blood supply going to the tumours.
Half of me is worried because the taxotere stopped working and the other half thinks well maybe it was fate because if I had had the other 3 taxoteres I may not have got on this trial and this drug may prove to work. In the trial if you get one drug and it stops working you are allowed to swap to the other drug.
Anyway I have got to have lots of tests done before i am accepted and if I am on the trial will have to drive back and forward to Edinburgh a lot more ( I live about 40 minutes away). if you are stuck in traffic at certain times of the day it could take me over and hour. However I am willing to do that and get on the trial.
It’s the worry that the taxotere didn’t keep the cancer from growing very long that’s niggling away at me and worrying me a bit.
Any advice.
Diane
xx