Reviewer: BJ Sell, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)

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4 1/2 years on Sutent at various dosages. Left kidney removed as well as right adrenal gland. 9 Nodules in lungs when started; all gone. Some side effects but still working. Still have cancer, and will until gone, but this drug has helped keep me here this long.

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4 1/2 years on Sutent at various dosages. Left kidney removed as well as right adrenal gland. 9 Nodules in lungs when started; all gone. Some side effects but still working. Still have cancer, and will until gone, but this drug has helped keep me here this long.
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Reviewer: 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Caregiver)

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I recently lost my brother who was only 40yrs old diagnosed with RCC. After one million different tests that they did for almost one month on him doctors come up with an idea to start him on Sutent50mg saying it works on 70%of people. It's all big lie. People please don't believe it doesn't work at all. Instead it makes your life more misearable. Side effects of this medication actuall ... Show Full Comment

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I recently lost my brother who was only 40yrs old diagnosed with RCC. After one million different tests that they did for almost one month on him doctors come up with an idea to start him on Sutent50mg saying it works on 70%of people. It's all big lie. People please don't believe it doesn't work at all. Instead it makes your life more misearable. Side effects of this medication actually killed him faster. Swollen legs, unbelievable chemo imbalance in the body even paralysis of one side of his body, collection of fluid in his lungs. They end up putting up chest tubes on him to ease up his breathi. Doctors were trying to prove to me that its his tumors growing. It's not true. He came to the hospital with his own legs. After the first session of completing Sutent therapy which is 4weeks he changed completely. It did not work a bit.After begging doctors to continue the battle since Sutent didn't work thaey were trying to explain that all medications practically does the same thing and it doesn't make a sense to start new therapy even thouhg before starting any traetment on him they were saying thereis 7 different drugs to treat RCC.I'm feeling guilty of starting him on this pills.It only killed him faster and made him suffer more. I didn't understand in the beginning that chemo pills don't only kills cancer cells but kills our normal cells more. This is 21century and it's so sad to believe I couldn't save my brother in the country where people come from all over the world for treatment. I lost him in 4 months.In the last few weeks of his life doctors were saying they still don't have treatment for RCC they only try to prolong the life.Unfortunately it doesn't work.I'm in tears every day. If I only knew this in advance. Try to spend as much as possible the time with your loved one. It was very terrible to sit next to him and realize that you are just helpless.
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Reviewer: 65-74 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)

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Right kidney removed 7/2011. PET scan 12/2011, showed 4 small tumors. Started sutent 2/2012, 50mg-2 cycles, 37.5mg-2 cycles, 25mg- 2 cycles, 12.5mg-currently every 4/2 cycles. PET shows no RCC cells. YEA. Side effects tolerable, no major problems.

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Right kidney removed 7/2011. PET scan 12/2011, showed 4 small tumors. Started sutent 2/2012, 50mg-2 cycles, 37.5mg-2 cycles, 25mg- 2 cycles, 12.5mg-currently every 4/2 cycles. PET shows no RCC cells. YEA. Side effects tolerable, no major problems.
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Reviewer: Bill, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)

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One year after radical nephrectomy was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Have been on Sutent for about 18 months now, 37.5/day, two weeks on, one week off... Side effects are unpleasant but manageable and fairly predictable. On Sutent tumors have either disappeared or have shrunk steadily to very small sizes. This drug has been a life-saver for me.

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One year after radical nephrectomy was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Have been on Sutent for about 18 months now, 37.5/day, two weeks on, one week off... Side effects are unpleasant but manageable and fairly predictable. On Sutent tumors have either disappeared or have shrunk steadily to very small sizes. This drug has been a life-saver for me.
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Reviewer: GU doc, 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)

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Only on 3rd week. Bad bloating, fatigue and sleep disorder

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Only on 3rd week. Bad bloating, fatigue and sleep disorder
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