BTW Maia, wanted to thank you. I flew up to Pittsburgh yesterday and right now about to walk over for my final vaccination. I am in arm 6 getting the high dose of both INO-1400 + INO-9012. The electroporation sucks, but other than that, no side effects and god-willing, it works and I don't get cance...

http://giving.clevelandclinic.org/articles/nontoxic-pill-replace-chemotherapy?utm_campaign=catalyst+enews&utm_medium=email&utm_source=catalyst1706&utm_content=nontoxic+pill+replace+chemotherapy I'm REALLY surprised there isn't more media attention about this... seems fantastic if it make...

Yes that is the one! Sorry I was thinking 1500 but it is the 1400 plus the other. Thank you about the cheo - I have been told that by a few doctors, I am a bit short in comparison but holding out hope! I know most people get chemo/radition first, but since I was staged 2 instead of 3C prior to surge...

Thanks everyone.

@del -- I was told by the Research Oncologist at UPMC said would be able to see on the CT scans local reoccurance if it was a certain size, but that does seem to fly in the face of what I have been told other times.

Thank you for the link Maia! I "can" afford it so don't want to take a seat from someone who can't. It hurts financially but I only have two trips left and I have already bought and paid for them. The one I am doing is the INO-1500. I am in arm 6 (which I hoped for) that gives me the high ...

Edit: I know what the flex sig is.

I get my last CT scan for the clinical trial I am in on July 6th, praying all is still clear, and then I will have my reversal done. I asked he doctor about a colonoscopy etc and he responded: "Since you can't be prepped a follow colonoscopy would be done after stoma closure. Prior to closure a...

Good luck! Keep walking, your sig bio sounds similar to mine (except I didn't do the chemo first.) The ileostomy takes a while to get used to, but after having mine for 8+ months, you get more used to it than you would think. Will be happy to have it reversed though!

Hey all -- it has been a few months since I have posted. I had to take a break from reading about cancer stories for a while, as I just coudn't mentally handle it for a while. I'm 36 as of this part march. I had rectal cancer, ended up being stage 3C as the lymph nodes did not show anything pre-surg...

I was stage 3C and had to stop chemo after 3 rounds due to cardiac arrest from the chemo and they only had me doing CT scans every 6 months. I had the arrest this past December 31s and because I entered a clinical trial for a vaccine got one in March, and will be getting one on July 6th and then won...

I was finally able to find and (looking positive) to get into a vaccine clinical trial. For those of you who hadn't seen my previous posts, I had 3 rounds of chemo and cardiac arrest on the 3rd round in December. I have been searching for other options to avoid reoccurance but the docs stated radiat...

Flying up to Duke for a consultation at the end of the week after this one. Hopefully I can get something good going!

Thank you for that post Painintheass, I really needed to hear that right now! Got a second opinion from Moffitt yesterday. The doc here was good, but basically said the same thing as Cleveland Clinic - said they met with a panel because my case is rare and unique. Said chemo wouldn't be worth the ri...

The only issue with that is that I can't do chemo because of my cardiac arrest so my risk of reoccurrence is higher... worried if I eat like crap I will make my reoccurrence risk even higher. Trying to decide if weight or healthy food is more important. Thanks for the response!

Hi all, Prior to my rectal resection I weighed about 195lbs (I'm 6''4''), which is about 10lbs more than I had traditionally weighed. I switched to an ultra healthy diet once I suspected I had cancer and exercised super heavily and dropped to about 185 in two months. After the resection I lost about...