Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and nivolumab (Opdivo) are a type of immunotherapy, both approved some months ago, as monotherapy, for those with CRC whose MS status is MSI-high (about a 10% of the CRC are MSI high). For the majority of the CRC patients, who are MSS, those agents and similar are being test...
AJQ, so sorry to hear these news. Do you know anything about the mutations/ genetic characteristics of the tumour? Are you in California? You have there many main cancer centers, they surely can help you to get genetic profile and maybe looking for an immunotherapy trial.
IMPORTANT UPDATE. October 2017 Many locations, not USA: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland International Registry of Patients Treated With Pressurized IntraPeritoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC) (PIPACRegi...
SisterinLaw, I do understand the good intentions of his oncologist --some patients pursue HIPEC hoping it will be a cure, for certain cancers... and for most stage IV cancers, when they are not resectable, there is no current cure (only recently, with immunotherapies, doctors start to talk about 'lo...
I'm sorry to hear about your brother in law. Can he travel for treatment, is he looking to have treatment in Chicago, only? Do you know more about the genetic / mutations of the cancer? Immunotherapy, probably a trial, might offer other possibilities of treatment.
Now my concern is for the possibility of permanent Neuropathy from the Oxaliplatin component of Folfox. You can ask to receive Folfiri instead of Folfox --it is your right, both are interchangeable regimens in terms of efficacy, different side effects profile. With Folfiri, you might have diarrhea,...
Godspeed, dear Stella. She was a friend, we emailed very often a couple of years ago, we emailed less lately, I lost contact with her some months ago --she knew time was near. I like to think that she is traveling somewhere now, free of pain and suffering, in a place that is even more beautiful than...
chest and abdominal xrays ( multiple views ) and abdominal / liver ultrasound, all this fall continued general blood tests including CEA ( not a marker for me ) CA19-9, LDH, liver enzymes probably on a 6 month basis with HgbA1c every three months ( I'm on a statin which keeps me borderline in the h...