I've never been so excited in my life about a tentative yes for San Antonio! OK, when I got wait-listed for dental school there, and hadn't heard from Baylor or Houston yet, I was pretty excited.
But this is also good! Mom got a call from CTRC saying that, tentatively, depending on her test results this week, she's in! One of Dr Ruxer's (oncologist) friends works in Arizona, I think at the Mayo clinic, and he is also a cancer researcher. Anyway, Dr Ruxer had sent his friend some samples of Mom's tumor tissue from her surgery back in January. This friend has access to basically all the drugs that are being tested, and matches tissue types to the medication that would be most effective for that particular tumor.
It turns out that the one that is a PERFECT match for Mom is the drug they are using at CTRC!!! It is being used in combination with another chemo drug that they have known for many years work on lung cancer, it just hasn't been FDA approved for Carcinoid/Neuroendocrine cancers. But, 1) because it is such a rare form of cancer, very few things are approved for use with carcinoid, and 2) that's the POINT of research hospitals, is to TRY stuff. Basically, nothing else has worked, and this works well on some other cancers, so, well, lets give it a try!
As excited as we are, we are trying to not get TOO attached to the idea. Reference my note a few weeks ago about living life on a roller coaster. However, this just seems to be headed in the right direction...maybe...finally...some hope.
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