Lmighty... I saw your message days ago and I've been sharing your pain. I know, feel, how you made everything possible for you mom, with a realistic outlook, looking after he quality of life also and first. You maybe perceived how close I've felt to you in this past months. I also lost my dear frien...
The mutation is important to know because it has immediate clinical impact --treat with a certain drug or not. But it is not really a mutation that usually makes the cancer more aggressive. On the other hand, being KRAS practically exclude her from having other mutation that many times can be more a...
Hi, Mercy In a rush here, so replying your PM in the open forum, in case it helps others --My mum's genetic test shows KRAS mutation. Practically speaking, I know there are certain kinds of targeted drugs are not useful on her right now. With a KRAS mutation, Erbitux and Vectibix can't be used. Ther...
but I would suggest getting yourself some pads. That way you can stick them to your underpants and they will stay in place. Plus, they are disposable. My husband thought I was nuts when I suggested it for him when he had a really bad boil lanced in his nether region, but he appreciated it when it s...
Congratulations!! So happy that such innovative combination is working for you. Keep going, every day there are steps forward a durable response, even a cure.
I never get tired of being in awe at your ''journey'', as our CRGuy says, my dear fellow zombie fighter. Hey, slowly, we are getting down more zombies in the last years, uh.
Oregon August 31, 2017 Good news from trial NCT02688712, for Stage II rectal cancer receiving first treatment, to illustrate why and how clinical trials shouldn't be considered something to try after everything failed. * Chemoradiation+ Xeloda or 5-Fu + IMMUNOTHERAPY (TGFβ Type I Receptor Inhibitor ...
I saw your med from your signature. Keytruda is only available in very few private clinics in HK. In HK, you have an ongoing trial with a drug that is the Novartis equivalent of Keytruda, PDR001, also an anti PD-1, *combined* with other immunotherapy. Your mom is probably MSS, and Keytruda or other...
Update #7: The past weeks were full of ups and downs. The good news was that the chest + abdomen CT scan confirmed that no blood clot is present, and that peritoneal met is indeterminate, at worst minimal despite months of ascites accumulation. The bad news though was that our onc thinks that my mo...
I'd love the CRC immunizations I think. But you have to be stage 4 to get into that trial (DFCI Oncologist told me that). It takes three months to make the vaccine as it's custom for every patient and I can't imagine what it costs. If you are referring to the trial I was mentioning, # NCT02960594, ...