chemo drugs

[beatlemike]

Hi everyone,After my surgery i had gemzar and carboplatin chemo. In many posts I have read many have recieved gemcitabine and cisplatin. I was just curious id gemcitabine was the same as gemzar and if cisplatin was the same as carboplatin. Thank you.

[raneyf]

Hi,

I'm fairly sure Gemzar and Gemcitabine are the same. Carboplatin and Cisplatin are different. I believe Cisplatin has more side effects but slightly better survival in earlier stage LC. I think the survival benefit of Cisplatin over Carboplatin at Stage 4 is negligible. I think I read that somewhere on Dr. West's onctalk.com site. You might want to look there. Hope that helped a little.

Raney

[dadstimeon]

carboplatin

Generic Name: carboplatin (car bo PLAH tin)

Brand Names: Paraplatin

Gemzar

Generic Name: Gemcitabine (jem-SYE-ta-been)

Brand Name: Gemzar

Cisplatin

Generic Name: Cisplatin (sis-PLA-tin)

Brand Name: Platinol AQ

drugs.com is a good source for info.

[Connie B]

You can always look at the SIDE of this page were it says: Glossary. You'll find a lot of definition's there for most of what your looking for. Just thought I would offer some helpful hints to all that we offer here at LCSC.

Another good place is www.Drugs.com

http://www.drugs.com/alpha/c4.html

If you type in a search useing lets say Gemzar you'll get all kids of websites with ton's of imformation.

Hope this helps.