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What treatments, after appropriate dose reductions/delays, do you offer for patients with oxaliplatin-induced cold allodynia/dysesthesia?
Do medications that help with painful chemotherapy-induced sensory neuropathy also help with the cold neuropathy?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
The primary treatments that I use for cold-induced oxaliplatin neurotoxicity are reducing the oxaliplatin dose and limiting the duration of oxaliplatin treatment (usually not more than 16 weeks of oxaliplatin-containing therapy in the initial line of treatment). Medications that are effective for pa...
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