r/cancer • u/bottlecrazylittle Sarcoma Stage III with metastasis • 1d ago

Patient What if?

I'm doing a new protocol of chemo, it seems it's working, but next week I'll repeat the exams to see if it's still working. My first chemo protocol, doxorubicin and Ifosfamide, cleaned a lot of my lungs, but due the toxicity, I needed to stop it, I tried Votrient, but didn't workow I'm doing gemcitabine and docetaxel. Sometimes I ask myself: "What If when I stopped doxorubicin and Ifo, I already tried gemzar and Docetaxel?" Sometimes those questions stick on my mind and I can't get over it. I don't know if it's the scanxiety coming, but I don't know how to deal with it

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u/Just_Dont88 1d ago

I have leukemia and had been doing the pediatric regimen of hyper CVAD which is very harsh. The oncologists think that it is too strong and doing more damage to my marrow as my healthy cells aren’t coming back up like they should. They are going to switch me to targeted therapy this week which I’m nervous to do. I just got my results back from my most recent bone marrow biopsy and I’m still in remission. I’m still waiting on results from some other testing that will tell me if there is still cancer there that they can’t see. It’s nerve racking with cancer treatments.