TAXOTERE INJURIES

This powerful chemotherapy drug belongs to a classification of chemotherapy drugs known as taxanes. Taxotere acts as an anti-mitotic agent, meaning that this drug works to fight cancer by disrupting cancerous cell’s ability to grow and multiply, thereby allowing doctors to focus on the cancerous cells in a specific area.

Taxotere is often used in combination with other powerful chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, capecitabine, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and fluorouracil in an effort to fully treat a patient’s cancer, as well as increase their survival rate.

Taxotere is usually administered intravenously, in a patient’s arm, and is typically part of an hour-long medication cycle that a patient will repeat every three to four weeks.

TAXOTERE SIDE EFFECTS

While this powerful medication has the potential of hindering cancer cells from growing and reproducing, thereby allowing doctors to treat cancer more effectively, Taxotere also can bring some very serious side-effects.  Some of the side effects a patient may suffer as a result of this medication include:

• Bone, muscle, and joint pain
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Fatigue and weakness
• Fluid retentions
• Infection
• Low red blood cell count
• Low white blood cell count
• Mouth or throat sores
• Nail changes
• Nausea
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Taste changes