My Mom is now on Gemzar how efective is that medicine?

[bestmommex]

My mom CA125 double from last time (from 420 to 833) her oncol put  her on Gemzar, is any one on this type of quemo?

[bestmommex]

This drug is hitting my mom hard, she will have some blood test early next week to check her platelets and her CA 125, I just hope her numbers will come down. Lupita

[msjazz]

I  was on gemzar from Nov. until this past May. I did it in combination,, however, with carbo and then with cytoxan. The gemzar was rough on platelets and counts. I did not have any tranfusions, but did have to have red and white blood shots. Donna

[crecco]

I was on Gemzar for several months. Though it worked great at bringing my numbers down, it just did not work long enough and I had to swithch to something else. Also it was pretty rough on me. I did not have much nausea but it just knocked me down for several days. Some do not have a lot of problems with it at all I hope that your mom is one of those and that it will work great for her.
  Chris

[Jan214]

I had 4 1/2 (9) treaments out of my scheduled 6 (12) and it did bring my numbers down, but I was in the hospital 8 times for dehydration from throwing up so they stopped it. (For me, each treatment was 2 parts one week apart.)  If they are not giving your mom Aloxi as a pre chemo drug, I would insist on it.  I was getting zofran and I had to ask my onc to switch me to Aloxi before I started chemo again & I have had two Topotecan tx and have had very little nausea and no vomiting.

[SimplyStar]

Every one is different but my daughter was only able to tolerate 2 of the Gemzar treatments, her CA125 went up so they took her off of it and she is now waiting for results from  a trip to Mayo before she starts another chemo.