What is Cyclophosphamide?
Cyclophosphamide is a nitrogen mustard alkylating agent that is used to treat various types of cancer. It is also used to prevent transplant rejection and autoimmune disorders; rheumatoid disorders, myasthenia gravis, nephrotic syndrome, multiple scelrosis, lupus and certain blood disorders.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Slow my MS progress | 30 |
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9 | |
| Other | 5 |
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2 | |||
| Mobility | 3 | 0 | |||||
| trouble walking | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| tx MS | 1 | 0 | |||||
| General health | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Cyclophosphamide. See all 15 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Course of treatment ended
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9 | 39% |
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Did not seem to work
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8 | 35% |
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Side effects too severe
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8 | 35% |
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Other
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3 | 13% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 9% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 10 patient evaluations
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- LSK
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
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- LSK
- 1700 mg monthly
- since Jun 01, 2006
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Slow my MS progress
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips It can be a very helpful intervention for many folks; I was just unlucky with it. See full evaluation
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- hitch354
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
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- hitch354
- 100 mg monthly
- since Nov 18, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips possible side effects See full evaluation
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- Oilyn
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
- See profile
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- Oilyn
- 1 g monthly
- since Jan 30, 2005
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Slow my MS progress
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips nasty side effects; after three infusions, 60% hair loss; no effect on my MS; had never experienced incontinence like this See full evaluation
See all 10 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.