Rare and Other Cancers
Discussion List
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Memorial Sloan Kettering offering free genomic testing for rare cancers
From our experience (stage 4 gallbladder cancer, but it applies to others also), it is so important to ask to get your tumor tissue genomically tested as soon as possible, to see if you are a candidate for immunotherapy or targeted therapy. Please ask for them to test for immunotherapy indicators like PD-1/PD-L1 as well…
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Financial Assistance
My wife was diagnosed with Olfactory neuroblastoma back in March. It is located in her nasal cavity, brain, two lymph nodes in her neck, and behind her throat. She had extreme chemo treatments every 21 days with great results. They started to do the surgery but backed off after cancer cells were detected in an area thay…