What are the standard chemo treatments/drug agents for advanced staged pancratic cancer. Please state from which country you are responding from.
Thanks
2007-01-19 06:26:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Anybody on Cetuximab (Erbitux)?
2007-01-21 11:17:51 · update #1
People have pretty much already answered this one.
Gemzar/gemcitabine is the standard therapy for all stages of pancreatic cancer. Because pancreatic cancer is usually very aggressive, the average benefit can be measured in weeks.
Clinical trials offer the best hope for a remission. I have heard MD Anderson Cancer Center is having some success with vaccines for pancreatic cancer.
Lastly, I am in the USA.
2007-01-19 10:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by oncogenomics 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A deputy in our county (MS) has Pancreatic cancer and was pretty advanced at one time.....he went to Memphis West Clinic for treatments....that has been I think at least 2 years and he is still working.....at first he couldn't but now back full time and even serves part time policeman for a small town where he lives...
I am sorry I don't know the treatments he had nor medicines they give him but so far they are working for him.
There is always hope...just depends on how a persons body responds to a treatment......never forget that. God Bless
2007-01-19 12:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by Gypsygrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandfather takes Gemzar chemotherapy and Tarceva. He also has injections of Neulasta and various other medications for the side effects of his treatment. We live in the U.S. His tumor was over 8 cm before treatment and now, 4 months later, it has shrunk to around 4 cm. He also had the Whipple procedure done a few days after being diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. Hope this helps!
2007-01-19 09:26:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to seriously think about this. If it is advanced, do you want to put yourself through chemo or radiation and be horribly sick for the rest of your life?
If determined to do this, then check with Clinical Trials for your area. Just type in pancreatic cancer and see what treatments they are doing. If the person wants to try, even with the advanced cancer, then this might be a good option.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
2007-01-19 06:34:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm sorry to be the bringer of undesirable information, yet pancreatic cancer is one in each and every of the worst and maximum deadly of all cancers. All which you're able to do for him now's to be there with him, convenience him, and enable him understand which you would be o.k. while he's long gone. If he's long handed by using chemotherapy, he may be bald, very skinny, and fairly vulnerable. it will be a marvel, little question. in basic terms understand that his soreness would be over quickly... undergo in innovations him for the guy who he replaced into, no longer the guy who's he top now.
2016-10-31 13:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-22 17:23:49 · answer #6 · answered by Incognito 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Milder cases can be controlled with just diet an/or exercise while more severe cases require meds or insulin as well.
2016-05-01 09:21:44 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-21 05:22:02 · answer #8 · answered by shacgi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋