hello,
i went for my cancer chat today, sadly because everything has been rushed forward by a couple of weeks, the info form everyone is patchy and sporadic, but i cannot fault all the nurses and dr they have been kindness personified towards me, which is a tad bewildering considering where i live, where verbal abuse is the norm from the people here, still ongoing with the stranger, harassing and trying to get a reaction out of me so he can start on me, the mind boggles at people like this.
anyway, i have had a change in the chemo treatment for this friday, they are now going to give me DOCETAXEL and CARBOPLATIN, because the lump is now the size of a small village on the side of my neck, has anyone any experience of this chemo treatment? i know everyone will be different on their reactions towards it, but i am loathe to google it just in case it has -will cause loss of limbs or head to fall off or something else as equally over the top and misinformed.
very much appreciated yet again
Hi ichi
Quite a few people here have carboplatin during radiotherapy if they react badly to Cisplatin. I’m sure they will be along to say how they felt.
Your situation is compounded by the fact that you’re having it with Docetaxel.
Youre right nit to Google. Docetaxel is pretty awful stuff with quite a few side effects but nobody gets all of them. Macmillan have some info which is worth reading
https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatments-and-drugs/docetaxel
https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/treatments-and-drugs/carboplatin
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
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