Velcade - Topic profile

Hi   My husband got bad leg pain after Velcade..Anyone else have this experience..Anyone go to MM istitute even if they did not live aroud there???     Blessings

  Recs: 0 SJS /velcade BS dip fading rapidly in rear view mirror.eom

  Recs: 6 "Revlimid will dominate 1st, 2nd and 3rd line in MM - Velcade will be relagated to salvage therapy with thalomid"

  Recs: 4 "The real exciting thing of RLI as opposed to Velcade is we do not see any cumulative toxicities that limit duration of therapy"

  Recs: 10 Yaron "What is CELG mkting tactic vs Velcade CR". NEJM editorial questioned how they collected Velcade CR data. Sol - "there is a couple of thought...       there is a couple of thought processes - that CR is predictive of overall survival and that overall survival is predictive of overall survival. We are glad to have the overall survival results and ...

  Recs: 6 TW asks about survey on Velcade. Sol "I see them too, every once in awhile they rarely may even be correct.They make no sense as they use IMS numbers - inaccurate due to RevAssist, etc. Revlimid continues to grow in the US"

  Recs: 0 Velcade-Update (Aug 27, NEJM)   http://www.clinicaspace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEn tityId=108059     The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Millennium 's Phase III Results of VELCADE(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection in Previously Untreated Multiple Myeloma Patients; Velcade Found Better Than Standard Drug 8/28/2008 CAMBRIDGE, Mass...

  Recs: 13 This is just publication of the data already seen 8 months ago & that was used for the Velcade approval by the FDA that ALREADY HAPPENED. This is not new data - Revlimid continues to gain market share across the board even 8 mos after data came out... as someone posted.. Sure Takeda may be using Bloomberg somehow as a marketing arm since the Revlimid ...

  Recs: 0 MedPage Today - Bortezomib (Velcade) in Combo Scores For Initial Myeloma Treatment - A more balanced article than Bloomberg By Judith Groch, Contributing Writer, Published: August 27...

  On 10/6/2008 Linda0908 wrote: Hi   My husband got bad leg pain after Velcade..Anyone else have this experience..Anyone go to MM istitute even if they did not live aroud there???     Blessings Hi Linda, I don't have any experience with Velcade.  But I do get leg cramps from treatment.  The only thing I have found to stop them is Hyland's Leg ...

My husband was dx 9/08. MM- started tx past week. Velcade on Tuesday then Velcade and Doxil yesterday. He complains of severe muscle cramps. called on-call doc who recommended flexeril and percocet. He has been taking but relief is short maybe 1 11/2 hours. Called on-call again she does not know why he is experiencing muscle pain. ANYONE????

  On 10/4/2008 Linda0908 wrote: My husband was dx 9/08. MM- started tx past week. Velcade on Tuesday then Velcade and Doxil yesterday. He complains of severe muscle cramps. called on-call doc who recommended flexeril and percocet. He has been taking but relief is short maybe 1 11/2 hours. Called on-call again she does not know why he is experiencing muscle ...

Hi   Nephrologist wants to in clude decadron do to elevated creatin. and hold on Velcade for this week.. Any thoughts????

Anyone have elevated creatine (4.3) .Started Velcade/Doxcil this week. I am hoping that my husband gets some relief. We wound up in the ER  due to potassium (5.3)...Nephrology told us he may need Decadron  and wait for creatine to be in the 3+ range before continuing Vel/Dox ANYONE??? If you do start dyalysis -is it permanent. I think I read on this site that ...