Woman Treats Mesothelioma with Chemotherapy After Tumor Resurfaces
Kidney failure and other ramifications of mesothelioma chemotherapy
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When her peritoneal mesothelioma resurfaced, Brenda fought her mesothelioma with chemotherapy, including Cisplatin and Alitma. Unfortunately, her system had a poor reaction to the chemotherapy. In this video she explains the mesothelioma chemotherapy process.
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma , Mesothelioma Treatment
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Video Transcript: Woman Treats Mesothelioma with Chemotherapy After Tumor Resurfaces
Finally, the tumor showed up in July of 2005. There was a small tumor that showed up. So now they had something to work with. They started me on the Alimta Cisplatin regime, which was an eight-hour ordeal. You had to go get your chemo for eight hours.... stay there all day to get this chemo. Well the chemo likes... the Cisplatin likes fluid. It attaches to the fluid in your cells. And what is does is that it constricts your kidneys from functioning. So, I took it for a couple months, and had to go off if it because my kidneys were failing. And it was the one thing that was stopping the ascites. So, back in trouble again.
So, after that happened, she said we would find another chemo for you to take. I had to go off it for awhile completely in order to make sure my kidneys were going to function. So I had to go to a specialist, in order to find out of what stage of kidney failure I was in.
Was I adrenal or whatever it was? I had to find out. So I went to the specialist, and she said that I wasn’t in any failure or in any harm's way of failure. The only thing I needed to do was to let my kidneys rest and drink plenty of fluid; and she gave me medicine for pain, and it worked out fine.
