Arizona Center For Cancer Care

My mom was diagnosed with early stage colon/​anal cancer. Dr Iyengar said her gastroenterologist saved her life by finding such a small, polyp.
However my mom just passed away from DPD deficiency reaction to the chemo med prescribed: 5FU. They killed her with this treatment.
Our family mission now it to make the DPD deficiency test a pre treatment as a standard of care to prevent other families from having to go through this. We were robbed of a mom, wife, grandma, sister, friend.
The deficiency is rare, however, it can be fatal like it was for my mom. My mom knew it was rare, but she was not given any warning signs to look for. Had she been given warming signs, she could have received a medicine to purge/​process the 5FU from her body. However, she was admitted into the hospital just beyond the window or effectiveness for the antidote.
5FU obliterated my mom’s bone marrow making her unable to produce WBC.
We should have had her get a second opinion from a top notch doc in Seattle.
5FU in cream form can also be fatal. Google 5FU and DPD deficiency.

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