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Avastin/ovarian cancer/chemo

by chopps, Oct 05, 2008 10:41AM

Tags: Avastin, chemo, Ovarian Cancer, stage IIIC, primary peritoneal cancer

My mother has stage IIIC primary peritoneal cancer/ovarian cancer. Is there any way she can get avastin with out being in a clinical trial. I don't like the percentages and she has been offered avastin in a clinical trial.
I would like to see her get carbo/taxol and avastin and be assured this is what they are giving her.
Chopps

This discussion is related to Wondering about Avastin.

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by momofsandj, Oct 06, 2008 07:14AM

My doctor and others have said they won't give carbo/taxol/avastin because it's not a protocol yet --- I think you have to go through the trials unless you can find someone willing to try on their own --- they still don't know for sure that the triplet works better than the pair(carbo/taxol)

by chopps, Oct 07, 2008 08:36AM

To: momofsandj

Thanks. I spoke to a friend of mine yesterday who is an oncologist in our area and she said that avastin will probably not be an option any more because my mother had a pulmonary embolism in the hospital. We'll find out on Friday when we meet with the oncolocgist. She said that they will not usually give avastin any time after someone has a pulmonary embolism.

It looks like carbo/taxol will be it. We will keep our fingers crossed her cancer responds to it.

Have you ever heard if iv vitamin C and B17 are effective?

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