If my readers without cancer could see the courage of my closest friends with cancer that are alive, amazingly we are all a heartbeat away from death anyway, especially me with this stupid thrombosis. Well, one of my most courageous friends is hitting the illicit drugs to ease pains, he has got some swelling. Another friend is heading into breast surgery again and another friend has had a speed bump on the magnificent road to recovery and has detected regrowth in her recurrences. I hope the descriptions give clues, but not any specifics. And another friend has had elaberate cancer markers reveal possible micro recurrences when she is doing everything humanly possible.
I wish I had some answers for all my dearest friends, I have provided suggestions almost on a daily basis, and what I love and admire about all my friends is they are bloody magnificent fighters and I am so proud to call them my friends. Despite all of our best efforts, cancer is a formidable foe.
So I take a no nonsense approach which has just been ramped up. My heart breaks for my dearest friends with the enormity of the challenges before each of us. All so similar in many respects and also so different in others. We are all different people with different tumours, with different attitudes and budgets and approaches. What unites us is we want to live well, we want to beat this illness into the ground our way, none of us will willingly do full strength chemo.
If you want to join this band of merry warriors, well start commenting on the blog. Nothing succeeds like success. I love to share success stories with you and also our failures, forits in our darkest moments we get our brightest ideas. That's the strongest point of the human spirit. If we die, well we were meant to, it is simply my time. But to die trying amongst my friends, well thats an honour and privilege.
I know they know how much I care and I wish I could sugar coat what I have to tell them about the implications of tumour progression, but I tell what they are doing is not effective enough. I told myself exactly that message today, regarding my lastesttumour markers I got this afternoon.
Do you see the beauty of my treatment cycle, its managed almost daily, treatment regimes varyby the results and status of markers and immune in synergy. Now net cancer cell death is my focus. I am going home NED on the 11th of April3. Not a normal tumour marker, I am not getting on the flight, its going to come down to the last minute. Stay tuned for the greatest anticancer campaign the planet has ever seen. I am betting on getting on the plane. My wife needs me and I so miss my kids and well my dogs Toby and Moby they are miserable without me. When I am home,I am number One. Alas I am away most of the time, so I think the kids rule the roost.
So I got the 6 day cancer marker post last Wednesday Tace and IPT combo back, it is 19.8 down from 20.9. I had a vivid dream just last night that it was 6 which almost normal. My wonderful Prof Vogl has a challenge next tace due on the 3rd April. I emailed him today with the results, he said "but I can hardly see any tumours, they are so small" it sounds nice but I want complete remission. I am however not ungrateful for his skilled ressaurances and observations.
Now consider my conclusions all based on the latest cea 1.15, down from 2.1 6 days earlier, I suspect the immune cycles effectiveness has peaked, and the inflammatory response is reducing. This I think is the point to start a short, sharpcounter attack using IPT daily and some hyperthermia. So I am making therapy decisions based on crp and markers. Note also ca199 increased from 197 to 213 and cea is effectively stable ie now 19.8 down from 20.9 in the same 6 days. I know different labs, but regardless, I must make the decisions with the best information I have. And I WILL. See the previous discussions about CRP being the timing guide for optimising immune response and also chemo effectiveness.
So I conclude latest Tace missed the mark, but very well may have been of therapeutic benefit. It may have even had a negative effect as the lymph nodes were targetted, seeking clinical success, ie reducing markers using all the wonderful therapies I have at my finger tips is my strategy. So we launch the IPT attack, I will do full super siebenhuener bloods tomorrow.
I suggest the vaccine response has diminished due to lack of falling CEA, and CA199. The next vaccine shot is not until the 2april, and the next tace on the 3rd. Commencing maximum cyctoxic therapies in the current window while preserving immune function for the up coming vaccine shot is at the heart of my strategy.
I am thinking of going in hard with Xeloda at 1500mg for this thursday and Friday IPT, then a weekend of rest and fun. I may visit doctor herzog and say hello, if I can a few days of infusions at the right price. Then next week
Now I dreamed of a completely normal cancer marker, I wished and prayed will all my heart, but life and my lord has more for me to learn about taming cancer. So into the valley of death I fly into the face of a million or billion cells intent on killing me, and all I have to protect me is a smile and a few tricks.
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The first trick, is last remaining funds being spent on an all out frontal attack using oral xeloda that I have been stock piling, with daily ipt with iv b17, artemisinin
These are just my initial thoughts, and yes this is all complete science fiction, or is it.
Do you want medicine based on the latest research and innovative strategies, or to play it safe with your countries conventional offerings. Some like the missionary position, occaisionallythats pleasant but really life has so much more to offer us, especially if we have metastatic cells to kill.
When my conventional friends cringe at the risks I take, I think of there poor bone marrow and GIT and the challenges before us all.
To BEAT cancer we do need Gods help, its that challenging
Thanks for listening, I need to workout the strategy and sharing my thoughts with you, and the reflections on the results of this campaign sofar, well its been very helpful. The daily oncothermia and gentle ozone, will still be a part of the maintence routine. But I want NED and I want NED now.
Immunotherapy homework today, i have been reviewing T cell selection.