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If you have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma within the last two years, what was your initial therapy?

Poll ended at Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:15 am

Thalidomide (Thalomid) only
1
1%
Thalidomide and dexamethasone (Decadron)
0
No votes
Revlimid (lenalidomide) only
1
1%
Revlimid and dexamethasone
22
15%
Velcade (bortezomib) only
2
1%
Velcade and dexamethasone
31
22%
Dexamethasone only
2
1%
Revlimid, Velcade, and dexamethasone (RVD or VRD)
49
34%
Velcade, dexamethasone, and thalidomide (VTD)
1
1%
VTD plus cisplatin, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), and etoposide (VTD-PACE)
5
3%
Velcade, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone (VCD or CyBorD)
12
8%
Velcade, Doxil (doxorubicin liposomal), and dexamethasone
4
3%
Melphalan (Alkeran) and prednisone (MP)
0
No votes
Melphalan, prednisone, and thalidomide (MPT)
1
1%
Revlimid, melphalan, and prednisone (MPR)
0
No votes
Velcade, melphalan, and prednisone (VMP)
2
1%
VMP plus thalidomide (VMPT)
0
No votes
Vincristine, doxorubicin, and dexamethasone
0
No votes
Melphalan plus VTD-PACE
0
No votes
Melphalan plus VRD-PACE
0
No votes
Other (Please describe below)
10
7%
 
Total votes : 143

Re: Weekly Poll - Initial Myeloma Therapy - 2013

by terryl1 on Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:30 pm

Hi Badblood, Like many people, I did have some side effects like fatigue. Still, I could work through treatment. I never had the Jekyll and Hyde transformation from the dex that people talk about. Thank God. I also had/have zero peripheral neuropathy. My blood counts are all in the optimal normal range now. While on the 8 months of CRD, I was the only one in my trial to have to use heparin, an anti-cogulant, because I had a pulmonary embolism when I progressed from SMM to active myeloma. They check my clotting numbers frequently. I had to take a belly shot daily of Fragmin....not fun, for sure, but not so bad. Now, I am on 81mg. aspirin daily. Good luck to you!

terryl1
Name: Terry
Who do you know with myeloma?: self
When were you/they diagnosed?: August 10, 2011
Age at diagnosis: 49

Re: Weekly Poll - Initial Myeloma Therapy - 2013

by dee777 on Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:43 pm

I am newly diagnosed being treated with Revlimid and Prednisone. That is not on the list, so other.

dee777

Re: Weekly Poll - Initial Myeloma Therapy - 2013

by kickem on Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:01 am

I am a 49 year old female diagnosed in July of 2012 , had 10 fractured vertebra and 85% of my bone marrow was infected with cancer, had ten days of radiation then four months of Velcade, dex, and Revlimid, which decreased the cancer in my marrow to less than 5%, at which point my doctor recommended a transplant, April 2013 had transplant, kappas spiked in July and was put on a Revlimid regimen, so far so good, I take vitamins, exercise a lot, and try to eat right,

kickem

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