Posted on 05/29/2018 7:20:22 PM PDT by libh8er
... After receiving the treatment, Kat's most recent MRI scan showed no trace of the tumour.
"DCVax has done what everyone said was impossible," her husband Jason says. "If not for this treatment, I would be without my wife and without a mother for our child."
Kat continues to have regular injections of the vaccine.
'Major breakthrough' Keyoumars Ashkan, professor of neurosurgery at King's College Hospital in London, who was the trial's European chief investigator, said the results gave "new hope to the patients and clinicians battling with this terrible disease".
"Although definitive judgement needs to be reserved until the final data is available, the paper published today hints at a major breakthrough in the treatment of patients with glioblastoma.
"Cautious optimism is welcome in an area where for so long the disease and suffering have had the upper hand."
Dr David Jenkinson, chief scientific officer for the Brain Tumour Charity, said: "These results appear remarkably promising for a community of patients who have been given little hope for decades.
"I go to London on the train, I have a shot in each arm and then I'm free to go home. It doesn't give me any side-effects. It's fantastic."
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Don’t tell him!
Lets hope and pray this is the real deal. I have a friend who lost her husband to this awful cancer. I don’t wish it on anyone (not even John McCain)
If McCain used his influence to get in on this trial, I bet he also tried to use his influence and position to demand that he NOT be among those getting the placebo but instead be placed in the group getting the real treatment.
Luckily McQueeg has been room temperature for weeks. They just wanted to post-date it so Cindy could keep his Senate seat.
That seat doesn’t belong to the citizens of Arizona, after all.
It belongs to them.
btt
My father died in 1979 from a glioblastoma. He died 1 yr to the day he was diagnosed. When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed he lasted 1 year even though his medical care was probably 1000 times better than my dads. Glioblastoma is a death sentence. Hopefully this is a breakthrough.
Unfortunately from phase 1 trial to a marketable product can take up to 10 years. Trump’s man at the FDA Scott Gottlieb, himself a cancer survivor, is trying to speed it up.
Hope it is a breakthrough also. Lost my mom to it this March (diagnosed in January). It is a horrible thing.
Just lost a good friend to this May 17th...luckily she went quickly and relatively pain free...altho pretty much unaware of anything from the time of surgery until she slipped away. I miss her.
So isn’t it the AZgovs job to ensure the state has proper representation? Why won’t he just appoint someone to replace McCain now?
Because medication can't continue to be sold if there's a cure / vaccine.
My friend is on month 13 since her diagnosis. Going downhill very steadily.
I’m in favor of the FDA loosening up on experimental drugs for people who have nothing to lose. It’s hard to believe that this is even an issue.
“Because medication can’t continue to be sold if there’s a cure / vaccine.”
I’m actually starting to believe that there is an element of truth to this. I note that agood number of breakthroughs come from England where the cold calculus of cost/benefit rules.
It killed my brother 9 months after diagnosis.
No, it’s because most of the “cures” are hyped up by the researchers who are hoping to bring in investors to fund further development. Most drug prototypes turn out to be duds.
If cures were being withheld because there is more profit in treating the disease than in prevent ing it, then why do we have mandatory vaccinations? Why not just let kids get sick and hospitalize them for big profits?
It is my impression that the makers of products for temporary stomach relief fought tooth and nail to prevent the spread of the wonderful news of a cure to the medical community as well as to the general public. Their efforts greatly impeded the implementation, because it meant that the multibilliondollar prescription drug business they had created was about to collapse.
Finally, the only way they have kept hold of a part of it is to get the FDA to allow these medicines to be sold over the counter without the requirements of a doctor's prescription.
Thus, those who are uninformed, or whose physician yet will not administer the cure, still keep them in the over-the-counter business, albeit at a greatly reduced level of market size and profitability.
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