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Chemo Regime???
Hi all,
Question on chemo regime….
When we went for our 2nd opinion in the US our doc recommended neo adjuvant chemo prior to RC, at that time he mentioned a regime of 3 weeks on, one week off repeated three times. That seemed to be pretty normal when I looked through peoples chemo regimes on this website! We decided to get our chemo in Ireland (which was fine with MSK!) They said they would liaise with our oncologist over here for treatment (this hasn’t been as easy as we thought but that’s another story!!)
Anyway our oncologist sent a letter to the doc in US about the treatment they were giving, it read “neoadjuvant chemotherapy with Cisplatin and Gemcitabine given two weeks on one week off every twenty one day cycle for three cycles in total before having a restaging CT scan.” This is a different regime than was mentioned at our 2nd opinion consult so I wrote an email to the doc in US questioning the discrepancy…after a few follow up phone calls we got a one line reply which read “Your MD is correct”…..
Does anyone know what difference this will make? In my eyes it 3 less rounds of Gem? Can anyone explain why this is? Has anyone had this regime of treatment? We’re a little concerned, what do ye think?