irinotecan
Information, Symptoms, Treatments and Resources
What is irinotecan?
Camptosar 100 mg/5 mL IV
Drug Name: IRINOTECAN INJECTION
Other Brand Names: Camptosar
Uses: This medication is used to treat cancer of the colon and rectum.
Posts on irinotecan (31)
Good Afternoon,
After a very tough round of cistplatin and etoposide (sp?) , I go back to...
- Sep 06, 2009
I have been given a choice between three different chemotherapy drug combinations for my ne...
after 5 years of chemo my doctors have said that i could not have any more, so they have pu...
- Aug 13, 2009
Irinotecan has cause horrible diarrea for my mother. She has had diarrea since saturday an...
Skin test showed mild allergy to carboplatin treatment after 6th treatment. I was also taki...
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Since 2004 I have been suffering from a "strange" sensation of pressure and tiredness ...
- Aug 31, 2008
My husband had surgery in 2002 and they removed a large atypical meningioma from his pariet...
My friend (37 years old) was diagnosted with OVCA stage 4 on jun/2007. She had CA125= 9600....
Dear Doctor
My mother has stage 4 OvCa, DX May 2005 and is now into her 4th year. She h...
- Aug 13, 2009
Mom is taking Irinotecan for ovarian cancer. We have had 2 treatments. She is now in hosp...
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