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(also known as Doxorubicin, Hydroxyldaunorubicin)
Doxorubicin or adriamycin or hydroxyldaunorubicin is a DNA-interacting drug widely used in chemotherapy. It is an anthracycline and structurely closely related to daunomycin, and also intercalates DNA. It is commonly used in the treatment of uterine cancer and ovarian cancer, as well as some other cancers. more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Breast Cancer | 127 |
97% |
| Rhabdomyosarcoma | 13 |
100% |
| Acute Lymphocytic Leuke... | 3 |
100% |
| Ovarian Cancer | 3 |
67% |
| Non-hodgkin's Lymphoma | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 96% (156
Members)
find Adriamycin helpful
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Adriamycin Reviews
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I did not have a port for the chemo, so the Adriamycin was given through veins in my hand. Even now, 13 years later, it is difficult to draw blood from those veins. I was told I had been given my lifetime maximum limit of the Adriamycin.
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I was never so sick.....
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Could only get a couple of doses because I had used this medication when I was a child for a different cancer. Your body remembers it, nausea, aching
Working / Worked
Infused with Cytoxan - awful after taste. Chemo flashes like hot flashes. Simply put it made me feel like crap.
Working / Worked
Working / Worked
It work. The second effects're hard low in the count white cells, hair loss, constipation, bone pain, fatigue... sometimes fever
Working / Worked
First time in 2003.
Working / Worked
Doxorubicin is gnarly. It gave me a weird sickly feeling in my stomach.
Working / Worked
Red Death... horrible side effects hydroseal on privates temporary diabetes blood in the stool fissures from constipation.
Working / Worked
Not this time. I reached my lifetime limit in 1983-85. That was the dark ages when more was better.
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