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Reviewer: rgrg, 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I'm taking for mouth/throat cancer. The bad face acne is clearing after 3 wks with hydrocortizone. Cuticle skin is splitting and getting infected, dry skin is tolerable but extremely dry hands. Messing up my mouth badly. Thank God, tho, no nausea or heart side effects, so i rate this well.
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Reviewer: MoLaube, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Caregiver)
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My husband almost died yesterday from a severe allergic reaction only seconds into his first treatment. After a short ambulance ride from the cancer center to the hospital, he was stabilized in ER & is now in intensive care & feeling better. They are concerned that he might have had heart damage & are currently doing a blood test every 6 hours hoping his level will stabilize or decli
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Reviewer: Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Caregiver)
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Nearly Killed my mother in law. After 1 treatment she was unable to walk with out assitance,was almost completly unresponsive.
She had to be hospitalized for over a week.
Please think long and hard about taking this drug. It is not as safe as tylenol as we were told. Its side effects are Not less than you have with tylenol!
Do your reaserch as a family and make a well informed decison befo
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Reviewer: jaja, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Caregiver)
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had drug with radiation. Rash was inside and outside body. Tough to deal with. 2month post, gray eyebrows started growing dark brown and long/narley. mustache hair increased from barely there. 6month post, still have some rash new yet. headaches and mucous (bad smell).
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Reviewer: BILLYG, 75 or over Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I HAVE HAD THE SKIN RASH MY DOCTOR GAVE MEDS TO PUT ON MY FACE I HAVE DOING THISERBITX FOR 4 MON. IN MARCH I WILL GET ANOTHER PET SCAN I HAD ONE 2MN.S AGO THE DOCTOR COULD NOT BELIVE WHAT WAS SEEIN. SO HE WANTED TO TALK TO MY ENT.IT LOOKS LIKE IT BROK IN 2 PEICES AN GOT SMALLER I HAD CANCER I HAD VOCL CORD CANCER THROAT CANCER HAVE BEEN TO THE FOOT DOCTOR HAD THEM CUT OPEN TO LET THE INFCTION O
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