Treatment Starts

Carrie heard from her oncologist 3 times this past friday and after much discussion, Carrie starts her next round of treatment THIS monday (tomorrow) April 19. She will be in Birmingham monday-friday, receiving this new chemotherapy drug everyday. They are worried about this medication making her more nauseous and sick than the previous ones so they will be prescribing her Sancuso, which is a patch she'll wear for nausea for the 5 days of treatment, and she'll also be taking another oral chemo drug called Xeloda. Her doctor will not be in the office Monday or Tuesday, but Carrie hopes to see her Wednesday when she will be seeing other patients and ask her any remaining questions. Her oncologist said this regiment is typically given every 42 days, but they'll monitor her counts and go from there as to how often she'll actually do treatment. They are still looking into the possibility of clinical trials so they are still working on that. We will let you know first part of the week how she is doing and any other information we find out.