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Sarah and Mary,
Can you clarify if they were doing chemo simultaneously with the spheres, or did they do chemo, and then follow up with the spheres once the chemo stopped? I ask because my mother’s Mayo oncologist does not want to do chemo at the same time. He wants to stop chemo for 6 months to a year during/after SIR-sphere treatment.Thanks,
KeithHello all. My name is Keith and my mother was diagnosed almost a year ago. It is really helpful to be able to read your experiences. My mother had an 11-cm tumor, but the surgeons at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville were able to do a central hepatectomy to resect it. They followed up with six months of chemo (gemcitabine or gemzar). The followup CT then showed at least 2 and as many as eight recurrent tumors, the largest of whcih were approximately 2 cm.
They are now moving forward with SIR sphere treatment. This is my question, and I’m hoping some of you might have dealt with this issue: the oncologist does not want to resume chemo (they would add a second drug this time) until AFTER the SIR treatment (in other words six months to a year). The doctor administering the SIRT has told us that the chemo drugs involved would not interfere with what he is doing, so I am not satisified with the answers I am being given for not starting chemo NOW, to coincide with the radiation. The oncologist finally told me that the cancer would become “resistant” to the chemo drugs eventually and, if they do it now, there would be no alternative for treatment down the road after SIR-sphere treatment had been exhausted.
Have any of you or your loved ones undergone both chemo and SIR at the same time? If not, was it discussed as an option? I would appreciate any thoughts any of you may have.
