Monday, April 12, 2010

Chemotherapy has started

I have now started on a twelve month course of chemotherapy using the drug Temozolomide (Temodal) to mop up any remaining tumour cells and possibly even reduce the size of the remaining tumour. My Oncologist is Dr Paul Mainwaring at the Mater Hospital here in Brisbane. I am on a 28 day cycle where I take the Temodal for five days then have 23 days with no Temodal. I am also taking the anti-nausea drug Zofran for the whole 28 days to control the nausea which is a common side-effect of the Temodal. This week is the fourth week of the first cycle and so far all is going well.