thanks! — we’re finally done with radiation so we don’t have to drive to Redding (2 hours each way) every day. We do an MRI of the brain in 4 – 6 weeks to see how the chemo and radiation have worked.
If the tumor is still there and growing, then we are going to do a clinical trial at the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles.
The new therapy basically comes from the Israeli Scorpion which feeds on cockroaches. The cockroaches have a molecule in their muscle tissue that the venom of the scorpion attaches to and paralyzes. The same molecule exists in brain tumor tissue. So they attach radioactive iodine to the scorpion venom molecule and inject it directly into the brain. The venom attaches only to the brain tumor thus making the radioactive material only harmful to the tumor and not to the healthy tissue.
Two people in an 18 person study had full remission. So, if we didn’t get it this time — :fencing: — we have another fight lined up.
thanks everyone for your support!