Docetaxel Guide
- Summary
- Why it is Prescribed
- Important Warning
- Brand Names
- How it Works
- Other Information
- Overdose
- Precautions
- Possible Side Effects
Why it is Prescribed
Your doctor has ordered the drug docetaxel to help treat your illness. This medication is used to treat: metastatic breast cancer
This medication is sometimes prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Docetaxel is in a class of drugs known as taxanes; it slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in your body. The length of treatment depends on the types of drugs you are taking, how well your body responds to them, and the type of cancer you have.
Important Warning
Docetaxel can cause a decrease in the number of ...
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Encyclopedia: Docetaxel
Docetaxel is a clinically well established anti-mitotic chemotherapy medication used mainly for the treatment of breast, ovarian, and non-small cell lung cancer. Docetaxel has an approved claim for treatment of patients who have locally advanced, or metastatic breast or non small-cell lung cancer who have undergone anthracycline-based chemotherapy and failed to stop cancer progression or relapsed. Administered as a one-hour infusion every three weeks generally over a ten cycle course,...
Question and Answer
My brother in law has just been diagnosed with cancer of the Lung, Liver, and...
I have taken carboplatin and taxol which is a bit different to your brother in law. But I can say what I was on made me feel fairly sick. ...
Asked by plezurgui - 14 months ago
Neoadjuvant treatment. Limited response to first 4 cycles of A/C Breast Cancer
From personal experience, both are very toxic, with some really adverse side effects. My body did not like Docetaxel (Taxotere) and tolerated Paclitaxel a little better. I wish you...
Asked by VIP CHAPEL - 29 months ago
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Questions about Docetaxel and Premarin with Lung Cancer
begins her second regimen of docetaxel, one 1 hr treatment every three weeks for nine weeks, so a total Hi, I have posted in the recent past re: my mother's recent diagnosis of stage 3b nsclc. She...
Jul 10, 2006
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Taxotere (docetaxel) anyone?
location if not. Taxotere (Docetaxel) -- I believe that a few people reading this forum are or have been husband's experience with docetaxel (Taxotere). As mentioned up above, the first cycle...
May 24, 2008
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