Thank You for taking my problem child customers

I am glad to hear your feeling better!!

for the rest, well they will get what they deserve, but they will surely say that they never did wrong...

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No. They'll just say that Nick was ripping them off... I mean... really!!! Demanding payment for services rendered!! What gall!!

Does this mean you beat the cancer, Nick? If so, yahooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

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there not saying i beat it but there all smiles the sreeens are comming back clean

Clean scans means remission. You won the battle. Bear in mind they don't actually cure cancer -- they just beat it into remission. You get tested regularly and, if necessary, you may have to fight again some day. But this battle you won and that is all you can ask for with cancer.

Glad you're recovering, bud.

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Bob have they tried Avasten on you it kills the blood vessels to tumors and seems to have done the trick for me it has its dangers but it might be worth the shot if they can do it.

Not yet. I've been accepted into an experimental program. Basically, they analyze the DNA of the tumor itself and customize the chemo to the specific characteristics of the tumor. There are several chemo options that they may select once the DNA tests come back. I believe that Avastin is one of the options. They mix it with Cisplatin, which I had before. The first regimen was Cisplatin and Taxol.

Because the prognosis is so bad I asked my oncologist if there are any experimental programs that I might be eligible for. He told me about the DNA-based chemo approach. Unless you ask they can only offer "standard" treatments. But once you volunteer other possibilities are open.

Results with other patients have been more encouraging than the old protocol offered. About 20% go into remission. The rest die within a year. But with the old method life expectancy was only 3-4 months and 0% go into remission. Needless to say, I signed up for the program.

I'll let you know how thing go with me. Glad you're getting well.

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RHC: Hang tough old friend. I fully intend to see you next spring during my sojourn south and I always get what I wish. You owe me one of those burgers you rave about and I fully intend to collect. Forget all the bullshit on this newsgroup ! Stay positive and know there are those praying for you.

Amen to that!

Thanks, guys. I'm too busy trying to beat this thing to worry about the ill will of a couple of people who've never even met me. For the moment things are actually pretty good. My lung reinflated and I can breath almost as well as before the cancer. I get tired real easily and stuff doesn't taste good, but I'm out riding my bike every time the weather is good. In fact, after lunch today I'm going to shoot down to Fort Meyers Beach. :^)

See you next Spring, Bob. Frank can fly down (not inverted this time :)) if he wants to join us for burgers.

Yeah ........ sure.

Why don't you all take all this bullshit to alt.false.hope.

you how's life can be a comic thing. this treatment,using dna to create a kind of special vacin against cancer been develop by a french canadian here in montreal...the worst is that my mom could not use it cause of her age, even worst we know the father's guy....

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You mean the "guy's Father", right?? It seems to me that your "Hae"nglish is getting worse the longer you participate here. We must be having a bad influence on you... :-)

You're right.. you have a bad influence on me ;-)

The program I'm in doesn't use a vaccine. The DNA of the tumor is analyzed to make a customized chemotherapy treatment.

Are you sure? cause what I heard is that they take dna from the tumor then develod a product that will trigger a large immune reaction to it, and since its base on the tumor dna the tumor is targeted by the same white blood cells....

That's interesting, but wouldn't the tumor's DNA be the same as yours? I understand that cancer is primarily caused by exposure to a carcinogen. I understand you also have to have a certain proclivity towards developing it (it's in your genes) as some individuals exposed to the same carcinogen never exhibit cancer. We're exposed to a lot of carcinogens these days. They're in the food we eat and the air we breathe. The doctor told us that only 12% of the people that get asbestoses actually develop the cancer. My Dad, unfortunately, was in that 12 percentile.

These days my family's eating a "ton" of broccolis. And we keep the windows "open" around here after dinner as I understand long term exposure to methane isn't good for you either. :-)

Apparently not. The nature of cancer is it's a mutation.

I've read that the average person gets cancer multiple times in a lifetime. Most of the time the immune system destroys the cells before they take hold.

Heh, heh, heh... I can't eat broccolis, spinach or certain other veggies. My wife makes up for it by preparing a veggie concoction in a juicer. The stuff tastes worse than Love Potion #9 but it's supposed to be great for me. I don't really believe it helps but it makes her feel like she's helping me so I drink the disgusting stuff.

I've no experience with love potions. My wife's about all I can handle at the moment. :-)

My mom cleaned out the local pharmacy of all their shark cartilage because someone told her that it would help my dad. It didn't. Both my sons still miss him terribly.