Timing of chemo after limb amputation due to osteo

[dmswartzfager]

I can't access the full article, so I'm not quite sure how good this study is (and it is a relatively small sample size), but this article was in this week's internal medicine news round-up email that I receive: https://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.259.7.749

Seems to indicate that starting chemo within 5 days after amputation significantly improves survival time. Something to consider and discuss with your oncologist.

[greysmom]

Oy.  I'm sure starting chemo sooner helps - the sooner the better - but, man, I would not have wanted to add that on top of everything else we were dealing with right then.  Dude had two more debridement surgeries within the first three weeks post-amp, and a raging infection.  The chemo would have been too much for his system!