Kidney Not

  • Two Years On

    Two years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 RCC on 24/11/2021.  What’s happened this year? Not a lot!  Treatment has continued and the primary tumour continues to shrink.   The latest size is 23mm which is an OK outcome from ...
  • Modify Update - Oct 2023

    I’m now on week 18 of the 2 year ModiFY trial.  Time for an update.  The first 2 months were hectic with appointments most weeks.   Since September the injections are every 12 weeks.   But there are so many check-i...
  • ModiFY Trial Day 1

    The ModiFY trial has started!  Whoop whoop!  This is a trial of a new vaccine sponsored by Scancell.  The official title is “A phase 1/2 open-label study of Modi-1 in patients with breast, head and neck, ovarian or renal cancer&r...
  • Covid

    Isn’t the cancer journey uncertain?  You feel you have it “sorted” only for something to happen and challenge the strategy you had come to terms with. . . . . or had you?!  I had been cheerily thinking how quickly the four...
  • Trials and "tribulations" - March 2023

    I haven’t updated for a while.  I think that shows I have moved into another phase.  The treatment is established and a new sense of normality exists.  Treatment has been progressing with no further incident and the primary tumou...