Interesting article on drug holidays/mutations

sflgirl
sflgirl Member Posts: 220 Member

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.

 

 

 

Comments

  • mozart13
    mozart13 Member Posts: 118
    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
    beaumontdave Member Posts: 1,280 Member
    That is very interesting,

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

  • Canadian Sandy
    Canadian Sandy Member Posts: 784 Member
    Thanks for posting.
     

    Thanks for posting.

     

  • sflgirl
    sflgirl Member Posts: 220 Member
    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
    JanJan63 Member Posts: 2,478 Member
    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