Matt's Experience
Matt, a YCS board member, submitted the following experience about his wife
Kara:
This drug combination was much easier on the stomach than the cisplatin and etoposide. The nausea is easily controllable with Aloxi, but the diarrhea always starts up about 2-3 days after the irinotecan but is usually controllable with Imodium A-D. About 3-4 days after the carboplatin and irinotecan, Kara was wiped out for a couple of days and needed to rest a lot. After only two cycles of this combination (and eight of the cisplatin and etoposide), her white-blood-cell counts got too low, and chemo was stopped for almost two months to give her bone marrow time to recover.