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What cancer patients, their families, and caregivers need to know about COVID-19.
HOPE for glioblastoma!
What cancer patients, their families, and caregivers need to know about COVID-19.
Joined: Sep 2011
criteria for this trial
Julia and all,
This trial require patient's HLA-A1 r A2 to be positive, which exclude about 30% the GBM patients. but this is promising regardless. My husband is not qualified. but I hope all of others do. good luck!
Joined: Apr 2011
thank goodness
I hope this is the answers a lot of us are praying for......
Joined: Aug 2011
if I were a millionaire
I would have my own lab and arsenal of scientists. I would want to accelerate the research. I would make sure the cure is tomorrow and not in 20 years because I truly believe it is within our grasp.
Julia
Joined: Aug 2011
let's continue to hope
Movement toward Phase III trials is encouragingly on the horizon. The largest clinical trial investigating the use of DC vaccines to treat patients with brain tumors (DCVax®-Brain) is sponsored by Northwest Biotherapeutics.
Joined: Apr 2010
vaccine
it eliminates those who have already begun other treatments. Has anyone seen the Polio Vaccine treatment. it looks promising as well.
Joined: Sep 2011
critiria
you are right.
ICT-107 requires the consent before chemo
Dcvx-brain requires it even before surgery
TVI-brain -- needs to confirm
I don't know about Polio Vaccine, can you provide more info.?
thanks,
Jane
Joined: Apr 2010
polio vaccine
The Polio Vaccine is through Duke, where I get my treatment. I am a candidate, and i've had Temodar and Avastin.
you can google it but here are 2 urls
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18766173
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881183/
my oncologist has high hopes once it passes the IRB. The viral technology is thought to stimulate the immune system to attack the tumor. There are actually polio virus receptors on the glioblastoma and the polio virus impregnates the tumor and it leads to a large inflammatory response.
Joined: Aug 2011
thank you for the info
I will check it out
Joined: Sep 2011
did you get in the polio vaccine trial?
Thanks for the reply. I did no notice it till now.
Did you get into this trial eventually? Hope things are going good with you. Do you know if that trial requires surgery to be done in Duke? My husband was dx. 3 months ago. he had surgery and 6-weeks radiation in another city.
thanks again. Jane