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Re: not responding well to abvd
Posted by
tinnedfruit
Posted
2 months ago
ABVD did give me the usual ill-effects (weakness, fatigue, loss of taste / appetite, sore mouth, hair loss, wrinkling and darkening of skin and nails etc) but the 'B' (Bleomycin) so badly scarred my lungs after the 4th dose that breathing became painful and laboured even after a short walk. My...
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Re: results after 6 months of abvd
Posted by
tinnedfruit
Posted
over 2 years ago
Great. I have walked down this path and also underwent autologous blood stem cell rescue. Latest scan 2 weeks ago showed no evidence of disease and in order to avoid radiation exposure, my doc says that in future only routine physical exams, blood tests and maybe ad odd MRI will do. Off for a well-deserved...
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Re: Stem cell rescue done
Posted by
tinnedfruit
Posted
over 2 years ago
Hi Stacey The bone marrow aspiration was done right in the beginning (Jan 2010) along with the biopsy of a malignant node tissue that was extracted from the abdomen. Tests showed bone marrow was free from disease (they use the term 'uninvolved') but the sample lymph node tissue showed HL....
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Re: worrying wife
Posted by
tinnedfruit
Posted
over 3 years ago
Hi I was diagnosed with Stage 4-B in Jan, and after 12 doses (6 cycles) of ABVD, the disease remained. I just finished 3 cycles of MINE salvage chemotherapy. A PET-CT scan scheduled for end Nov should hopefully give me an all-clear. All these months, I have had very low energy, nausea, loss of hair...