Dear friends
I’m on my way home from the hospital after picking up ct scan results.
The bad news is that the cancer has grown since the start of the immunotherapy in October. Boo. Mostly the tumours are still too small to cause me problems but they’ve grown enough to take me off the trial.
My doc did have something else to offer me. It’s another trial, this time of a drug that inhibits DNA repair. The theory is that this drug, combined with the brca mutation (which also inhibits DNA repair) might give the cancer a double whammy. It’s the same theory as the PARP inhibitor that I took back in 2016. Anyone with a science interest, it’s an ATR inhibitor known as AZD6738. It comes as a tablet. Not much is known about the side effects but they include the usual - nausea, fatigue, anaemia.
Here is a link https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/find-a-clinical-trial/a-trial-looking-AZD6738-radiotherapy-advanced-solid-tumours-patriot
They hope to start me on this either just before or just after Christmas.
Here I go again.....
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Upside down again. Me, my niece, my younger daughter and a muddy puppy. OMG you should have seen how muddy she got today. She was playing chase with the big dogs in the park. When they’ve nearly caught her, she rolls over mid run. They run straight over the top of her. It’s hilarious but she ends up covered in mud.
That’s enough daft pics for one day
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Then I believe you should see something like this...... (I made these for Tinalay the other day)
On number 2, ignore the circled link and click the next option down that says image. Then you can use an image from your device or from online. Just pick the right option. There's also the option to resize it, but just ignore that.
Lass
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I have no medical training, everything I post is an opinion or educated guess. It is not medical advice.
