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Posted 2015-08-28T03:28:26Z

August update

Earlier this month Steve completed the prescribed 6 months/12 cycles of what is considered very aggressive chemotherapy (for those of you familiar with this stuff it was FOLFIRI + BEV).  As is standard at the 6 month mark, the most toxic of the 4 drug mix was dropped in order to, among other things, give his body a break. This new regimen is known as “maintenance” therapy. He continues to go to the hospital every other week to be infused with two of the drugs, then he wears a pump home which infuses the third drug over the next 46 hours.  So in essence his chemo schedule is the same, just minus one drug.  He has already noticed fewer and less debilitating side effects on the new regimen and is very happy about that![...]