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  • Forum Post: Re: not responding well to abvd

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    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...

  • Forum Post: Hypothyroidism after ABVD?

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    Posted 8 months ago
    Hello there I finished my chemo about 18 months ago and have been borderline hypothyroid for a while, i was just wondering if this is a typical path... i know radiation therapy is thought to affect the thyroid but just chemo? I did 6 months of ABVD and haven't felt absolutely tip top at ant...

  • Forum Post: Re: Stem cell rescue done

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    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....

  • Forum Post: Re: worrying wife

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    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...