Re: Re: My Dad -- Avastin and protein levels in urine???? JOE

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Joe,

Thanks for your advice and words of encouragement! My

dad is continuing with his Xeloda treatment as usual,

just without the Avastin. His Onc will wait until

July 21 to test him again.

He has a few mets in his abdomen, but most doctors are

reluctant to perform resections if there are mutiple

mets at mutiple organs. His Onc thinks resection will

make things worse because of adhesions in the

digestive tract. In my dad's case, he has lung and

abdmominal mets.

I'm not a medical expert but I think it seems easy to

remove these mets rather than have chemo. But the

medical literature seems to indicate otherwise.

Any thoughts on this? (just curious since you always

have rational explanations).

Have a nice July 4th weekend!!

Nickie

--- Joe Savage JSAVAGE@...> wrote:

> Avastin is a " booster " for the basic chemo agent

> that he is taking

> (5-FU perhaps?). Once his protein level drops as the

> Avastin wears

> off, your oncologist may want to discontinue Avastin

> but continue

> with the basic chemo.

>

> There are other " boosters " that can be used, such as

> Leucovorin

> which helps 5-FU do its job and Erbitux which seems

> to help 5-FU and

> CPT-11 do their thing. Of course, Erbitux has its

> own set of adverse

> reactions; Leucovorin is pretty mild.

>

> Anyway, the protein levels should drop after a while

> and your dad

> can continue chemo if he is otherwise up to it.

>

> Been There, Done That, Have the Tee Shirt!

>

> -joe-

>

>

> > We have bad news today -- my dad's Avastin chemo

> was

> > cancelled because of high protein levels (3+) in

> his

> > urine.

> >

> > He MRI results (as compared to 12/03 and 9/04)

> showed

> > sligh increases in the size of his peritoneal mets

> > (largest from 8 cm to 10 cm) and they found

> another

> > smaller met in the mid-abdomen near the transverse

> > colon (about 2 cm). The lung mets are the same.

> >

> > His Onc says that my dad's tumors seem to be slow

> > growing so that's good news. His liver, kidneys,

> etc.

> > are fine.

> >

> > My dad has been experiencing more abdominal pain

> near

> > his right side where the mets are.

> >

> > Is there anything medications or anything that we

> can

> > do to help reduce the protein levels in his

> urine???

> >

> >

> > I am praying this protein level decreases so he

> can

> > re-start Avastin treatment again.

> >

> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

> >

> > Have a nice July 4th weekend.

> >

> > Nickie

> >

> >

> >

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