Nivolumab for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma User Reviews
Brand names: Opdivo
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- Taken for 1 to 6 months
- September 17, 2022
"Worst medicine ever. My Mother who is only 74 years old was diagnosed with mesothelioma and was put on a combination of Optivo and Yervoy. After 6 long treatments which were awful with the side effects, the tumors actually GREW. These medicines did nothing for her plural mesothelioma, actually made things a lot worse. These are really expensive drugs and I can't believe the FDA approved them for mesothelioma. They did nothing for my Mother except make her even more ill and the tumors grow even faster."
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Opdivo (nivolumab) "I have Peritoneal mesothelioma. This drug, along with Yervoy, gave me colitis & caused me to be adrenal insufficient. The treatment was worse than the cancer. I’ve had 3 infusions 9 of Opdivo and the 1st and 3rd were combined with Yervoy. Each infusion gave me a worst case of colitis. The colitis required steroids to combat its symptoms of vomiting & diarrhea. Each of the 4 times my doctors tried to wean me off the steroids and stopped them, within 2 days I would end up in the hospital because of vomiting & diarrhea & dehydration. After the 3rd infusion, the steroids were ineffective in treating the colitis, I was in one hospital for almost a month while they kept giving me steroids thinking it was treating the colitis. When I went to a different hospital, one that specializes in cancer care, they immediately discovered that I had inflammation & infection in my esophagus & small & large intestines after an endoscopy & colonoscopy, proving that the steroids no longer were effective in treating the colitis."