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Is There Any Better Medication For Metathesized Kidney Cancer?

My husband has been in Axitinib for about 1 year and more for Kidney cancer. He had some blood clots

in his lung and we were told it was caused by axitinib please confirm. thanks

Do you know a better medication for metathesized kidney cancer . Axitinib was helping him but not

it is stopped for the lung probem

Sat, 8 Mar 2014
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This is called the targetted therapy. It is used in advanced stage of cancer. the clotting problem is a rare cause with this drug but it is the malignancy itself which is responsible for the clotting phenomenon in the body. take advice from your doctor for use of blood thinners.
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Is There Any Better Medication For Metathesized Kidney Cancer?

This is called the targetted therapy. It is used in advanced stage of cancer. the clotting problem is a rare cause with this drug but it is the malignancy itself which is responsible for the clotting phenomenon in the body. take advice from your doctor for use of blood thinners. Dr. J. ticku