Nivolumab for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma User Reviews

• Lon...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• November 21, 2022

Nivolumab "I have peritoneal mesothelioma. This drug, along with Yervoy, gave me colitis and caused me to be adrenal insufficient. The treatment was worse than the cancer. I’ve had 3 infusions of Opdivo, and the 1st and 3rd were combined with Yervoy. Each infusion gave me a worst case of colitis. The colitis required steroids to combat its symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. Each of the 4 times my doctors tried to wean me off the steroids and stopped them, within 2 days I would end up in the hospital because of vomiting and diarrhea and dehydration. After the 3rd infusion, the steroids were ineffective in treating the colitis, I was in one hospital for almost a month while they kept giving me steroids thinking it was treating the colitis. When I went to a different hospital, one that specializes in cancer care, they immediately discovered that I had inflammation and infection in my esophagus and small and large intestines after an endoscopy and colonoscopy, proving that the steroids no longer were effective in treating the colitis."

• Sta...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 17, 2022

"Worst medicine ever. My mother, who is only 74 years old, was diagnosed with mesothelioma and was put on a combination of Opdivo and Yervoy. After 6 long treatments, which were awful with the side effects, the tumors actually grew. These medicines did nothing for her pleural mesothelioma, actually made things a lot worse. These are really expensive drugs, and I can't believe the FDA approved them for mesothelioma. They did nothing for my mother except make her even more ill and the tumors grow even faster."