Immunotherapy squamous cell

imherdaughter
imherdaughter Member Posts: 7
in Anal Cancer #1

Hey there

i have previsouly written a few months back, my mum is fighting anal cancer squamous cell carcinoma stage 4- tumor in rectal sphincter muscel and in near by lymph nodes, had the big surgery and hysterectomy, all nodes removed, then chemo and had a scan 6 months ago was clear it hadnt travelled at that point

yesterday her scan now shows its travelled( metasisized) to the lungs and attacked some of  the lymph nodes in groin.

dr wants to trial the immunotherapy & chemo combined as they both can be taken at once, wondering if any one with the squamous cell cancer has been treated with the immunotherapy drug and had a successful result, im in Australia and having this type of cancer is considered a rare cancer, i really find the forum helpful and gives an understanding of this horrible disease. if anyone has had this similar situation, it would be amazing for a response.

just thoughts on the immunotherapy being successful with this type of cancer.

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  • mp327
    mp327 Member Posts: 4,440 Member
    #2
    imherdaughter

    I'm sorry to hear about your mum's scan results and I'm afraid I have little or no information about immunotherapy.  Hopefully, there are members on this board who can give your some insight.  Please know that I send best wishes to your mom and you and I hope you'll keep us posted on how things go for her.

    Martha

  • tanda
    tanda Member Posts: 174 Member
    edited February 2017 #3
    imherdaughter

    There are a few people on blogforacure.org that have been in an immunotherapy trial...Dr Cathy Eng at the MD Anderson cancer hospital in Houston Texas is running some immunotherapy trials; perhaps your Dr could contact her.

  • imherdaughter
    imherdaughter Member Posts: 7
    #4
    thankyou for your replies,

    thankyou for your replies, will check out the blog for a cure.

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