Frank J Peter, Author at Frank J. Peter

A Cancer Journey: My Prostate Cancer, Part 16

More Keytruda cycles ensue… every three weeks.

And so you board another crazy train to who knows where…

That third line of defense was a medicine you’ve likely heard of if you watch even a wee bit of television:

For the first few weeks, the chemo appeared to be working…

Each two-week cycle comes and goes…

Now I really look like a cancer patient.

In layman’s terms, Taxotere works by killing anything that grows quickly.

Can you state your full name and date of birth?

One of the side effects of Taxotere is that it kills white blood cells…

It’s quite surreal… first time in the chemo suite.

In my case, the chemotherapy of choice was something called Taxotere, to be given by infusion every two weeks.

Long story short, Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) did not do the job.