Since we've been spending most of the weekend--day and night--helping Beau through the side effects of the Cytoxan he had last week, I thought I'd do a bit of reading up on the other medications in the "CHOP" program he's going through. I wanted to be as informed as possible on all of these and to have an idea of what sorts of other "surprises" we should prepare ourselves for.

CHOP basically consists of 4 cycles of 4 weeks each, with a rest week in between. Each of the 4 cycles go like this:

Week 1: Vincristine
Week 2: Cytoxan
Week 3: Vincristine
Week 4: Doxorubicin

There's also Chlorambucil listed on some of the Cytoxan weeks.

None of these sound like a walk in the park. At least two of them are themselves believed to be carcinogens. Great. Well, I suppose if they continue killing off the cancer cells, then they're better than the alternative.

We'll just keep taking one day at a time. Beau is still having frequent, urgent, and strained urination today, although I haven't seen any blood in his urine for a few hours now. Fingers crossed. Tomorrow is his week 3 vincristine dose.

Cheers,

Ken