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  • November 8, 2017 at 8:30 pm in reply to: Teeth issues on immunoRx #4295
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    Avatar photoLisa Kottschade

      I don’t know if I’ve had dental issues per se. I do have a lot of patients calling regarding whether or not they can have dental work done. Might be good to better keep track of those and what they are having done, frequency, etc. Thanks for bringing forward.

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      November 2, 2017 at 12:08 am in reply to: Frequency of visits on ipi + nivo #4270
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      Avatar photoLisa Kottschade

        Hi Krista,

        We tend to be a large referral center and a majority of our patients are traveling at minimum 1-2 hours each way to get their treatment. Often this is closer to 4-5 hours. We tend to see them every 3 weeks before their treatments. However with that said, we have an online messaging system as well as we have our nurse check in on them hopefully once a week, especially folks that we tend to think may be high risk for side effects. We tend to only get labs every 3 weeks.

        November 2, 2017 at 12:00 am in reply to: antibiotic ppy when on steroids #4269
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        Avatar photoLisa Kottschade

          Hi Krista,

          That is a great question. Our practice commonly places patients on PCP prophylaxis for all patients on greater than 40 mg of steroids daily, that are anticipated to be on those steroids for greater than a couple of weeks. In general we will allow patients to discontinue the PCP prophylaxis when they are down to between 10-20 mg of prednisone.

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