Unexpected Strategy Change
I met with my oncologist yesterday and turns out my current chemo regiment of Taxol is not working. The tumor actually doubled in size from when I finished my first chemo regiment of drugs, but still not as big as when I started treatment all together, so there is that silver lining. They are changing my treatment to Carboplatin and Gemzar. I will receive both drugs one week, then just Gemzar the second week, then I get to skip a week. They will evaluate every start to the cycle and if it works then I will get 4 cycles to finish in Feb. If it doesn't then they will stop after cycle #2 and send me to surgery. It’s definitely not the news that one wants to hear, but in talking with other Triple Negative Breast cancer patients, it’s not unusual for Taxol, by itself, to not work as effectively as needed. This new combo of drugs is not supposed to be as harsh as my AC combo but definitely not as easy as Taxol. Every persons cancer cells are ...