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An update for everyone
Well, it's been fun for the last while. The oral etoposide I took for the 2 weeks my bone marrow lasted for in combination with a huge load of naturopathy seems to have a very large effect on my cancer. My bHCG was 204,000 prior to this and 1 1/2 months later it's only 36,000. Still high but a massive improvement. However one of the biggest things it did was completely remove a tumor like mass on a lymph node on my cheek / jaw bone where it intersects in the muscle, unfortunately, in the last week it returned from being completely gone. On Oct 15, i'll probably take another 2-3 week duration of oral etoposide due to my bone marrow being very strong again. The naturopathy seems to be doing some good rather than destroying me like everything else! However on oct 18, i'll find out exactly what my lungs are doing and what the bump on my check really is (they been fighting for a while if it's a tumor or severely agitated lymph node) with another CT scan (around #14 or #15 in the last 2 years). I really wish they could just remove the one near my jawbone even with a elevated bHCG, it's rather annoying (but my doc says this is a very bad idea, however i could get radiation on it, but i'm not going for that since that area and the way they would do it could leave me without some major glands that are very needed for tasting food!).
On another side of being a lab rat at the hospital, i've found another crazy trail to maybe try. It's called DCA (dichloroacetate) at the university of alberta where it just happens my girlfriend is doing her masters so i'm always up there anyways. I'd definately like to know if anyone else has heard of this as it seems to be a 'weird' way of doing things in terms of a new drug for cancer patients (although i'm a little paranoid after the sutent fiasco!). The weblink is http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/
Well thanks for the positive vibes everyone! Take care!
On another side of being a lab rat at the hospital, i've found another crazy trail to maybe try. It's called DCA (dichloroacetate) at the university of alberta where it just happens my girlfriend is doing her masters so i'm always up there anyways. I'd definately like to know if anyone else has heard of this as it seems to be a 'weird' way of doing things in terms of a new drug for cancer patients (although i'm a little paranoid after the sutent fiasco!). The weblink is http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/
Well thanks for the positive vibes everyone! Take care!
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