Re: delayed treatment - was Xeloda

[Guest guest]

I have been anxiously reading replies and spent hours on the net researching

Xeloda. I finally found the clinical trials for PRE-surgery use and feel

much better now about Bill choosing the pill. At first all I could find was

about using it AFTER surgery. Right now my frustration level is high

because Bill was supposed to start rad/chemo three days ago and when we got

there, the plans were changed. Now he is waiting for a TRUS and they didn't

get an appointment time made so we are sitting here over a very long weekend

chewing our fingernails.

The doctors assure us that this cancer grows so slowly that a couple of more

weeks won't matter, but he was diagnosed in early July and told by the

surgeon that he absolutely could not delay surgery even for two weeks so he

could attend his car show. Now it's been over two months. We are at their

mercy:-(

I am also amazed at how many people don't have a clue what they are taking.

In the 'old days' when I was still working, patients would come in to the

hospital or outpatient clinics and when ask about meds, they would say

things like " it's a little bitty red pill about this big " as they held up

their fingers to show size:-)

> taking , what stage they were or even where their cancer is. That

environment

> doedsnot exist on this board.

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[Guest guest]

Bill isn't in any pain but he does have some discomfort and a feeling of

cramping in the lower abdomen. The rad/chem treatments can't begin until he

has the TRUS and it is evaluated. Due to size the cancer is graded a 3 but

apparently this TRUS will let them grade it accurately.

Jan

Subject: Re: delayed treatment - was Xeloda

> Is Bill in any pain at all? Have they said anything at all about

> how long the radiation will be delayed?

[Guest guest]

Bill isn't in any pain but he does have some discomfort and a feeling of

cramping in the lower abdomen. The rad/chem treatments can't begin until he

has the TRUS and it is evaluated. Due to size the cancer is graded a 3 but

apparently this TRUS will let them grade it accurately.

Jan

Subject: Re: delayed treatment - was Xeloda

> Is Bill in any pain at all? Have they said anything at all about

> how long the radiation will be delayed?