This information was written by my (late) father, Ed Zumbach, in 1999. He original had this posted on the website he made during Jason’s treatment.
For those who are intimately involved with this kind of cancer, this is the type of chemo Jason receieved from Sept 1999 – 2000
- 1st. treatment was Doxorubicin (Adriamycin)Vincristine (Oncovin)Cylophosphamide (Cytoxan) Sept. 13, 1999
- 2nd treatment was Cis – Platin (platinol, (is – Platinum, CDDP)Etopside (VP-16, VePesid) Oct. 4, 1999
- 3rd treatment was same as 1st. Oct. 26, 1999
- 4th treatment was same as 2nd Nov. 23, 1999
- 5th treatment same as 3rd. Dec. 16, 1999
- 6th treatment – Cis – Platin (platinol, (is – Platinum, CDDP)Etopside (VP-16, VePesid) Jan. 14, 2000
- 7th treatment same as 1st. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin)
Bone Marrow Transplant. Tentative schedule below;
DETAILED PREPARATION FOR TRANSPLANT:
March 24
Outpatient center @6:00am, CT chest/abdomen/head/sinus; bone age; ECHO/EKG; BAER hearing test
March 28
Injection of dye into broviac for MIBG scan
March 29 &30th
Outpatient Center
12:00 pm MIBG scan both days
March 31
Oncology clinic visit
they will do a bone marrow extraction @8:30 am then at 1:30pm Jason has a psychological review.
April 3
The big final talk with the BMT doc, Dr. Pietryga. We have a talk with him at 10:30am to get the low down on everything that will happen from there.
May 2, 2000
Jason is admitted for 4 days of intensive chemo and then 4 days after the chemo, they will give his bone marrow back in a transfusion. The chemo given is;
(Melphalan for 3 days),
(VP16 )
(Carboplaten) given continuously.
May 9, 2000 TRANSPLANT
Bone Marrow Transplant starting at 2:00 pm
Isolation in hospital balance of May or until his counts are up satisfactorily enough to go home.
The medications he was on
- Diflucan … to prevent antifungal infection in G.I. Tract
- Bactrim … to prevent pneumocystis pneumonia
- Megace… appetite stimulant
- Zofran …. dissolvable tablets for nausea
- Neupogen shot after chemo for 4-5 days for colony stimulating factors to speed up thegrowth of neutrophils (white blood cells) in the bone marrow.
