Interesting article on drug holidays/mutations

sflgirl

https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/2017/05/new-strategy-cancer-treatments/

Thought this was interesting.  Using drug holidays and second line treatments to "outsmart"  tumors when they mutate to become chemo resistant to first line treatment.

 

 

 

mozart13

Good article

Actually it is very intersesting approach, and he is right on the money, we see it all the time here, no two cancers are the same, some people have excelent response, where some people not as good, for the same diagnossis.

 

beaumontdave

That is very interesting,

That is very interesting, thanks!..........................................Dave

Canadian Sandy

Thanks for posting.
 

Thanks for posting.

 

sflgirl

JanJan63 said:

Thank you so much for sharing

Thank you so much for sharing that!! That's really interesting! I want to die knowing they're found a cure even if it isn't in time for me. We're so smart and so educated in medical protocals and there's so much testing and so many brilliant people involved, it's got to happen sooner or later. They year before my onc told my husband that I had about ten years left my surgeon was doing a colonoscopy on my husband and he told my surgeon that I might have mets in my lung that were inoperable. My surgeon said he figured I'd have about thirteen years left and said 'but they're coming up with new strategies all the time, she could have much longer'. I'd love to see it eradicated or more easily treated or even still treatements that are unpleasant like we have but that are guaranteed to work. A parent should never have to bury their child because of this s**t. We all die eventually from something but it shouldn't be from this.

This article gives me hope!

Jan

Agree with you

Hi Jan,

It gave me hope too and that's something we can all enjoy.

Andrea

JanJan63

Thank you so much for sharing

Thank you so much for sharing that!! That's really interesting! I want to die knowing they're found a cure even if it isn't in time for me. We're so smart and so educated in medical protocals and there's so much testing and so many brilliant people involved, it's got to happen sooner or later. They year before my onc told my husband that I had about ten years left my surgeon was doing a colonoscopy on my husband and he told my surgeon that I might have mets in my lung that were inoperable. My surgeon said he figured I'd have about thirteen years left and said 'but they're coming up with new strategies all the time, she could have much longer'. I'd love to see it eradicated or more easily treated or even still treatements that are unpleasant like we have but that are guaranteed to work. A parent should never have to bury their child because of this s**t. We all die eventually from something but it shouldn't be from this.

This article gives me hope!

Jan