Funny, I just realized that it's been a month since the last time I posted anything.
There's an inverse between how I feel and and what I need to say. I feel great, and thusly, I get focused on other things, I guess. Currently, I've been working on some music with my buddy Bob, and so outside of work, that's the main thing I've been working on.
I saw this a little bit ago about a Phase 1 trial for GBM patients, directed by Dr. John Yu, who, of course, is the surgeon who has done all of my surgeries at Cedars-Sinai:
"The Phase 1 trial involved 16 patients with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.
They were treated with ICT-107, an experimental dendritic cell based cancer vaccine, following the standard care of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
"We are targeting specific antigens that are on cancer stem cells ... the only population of cells that can really propagate a tumor," said Dr. John Yu, director of surgical neuro-oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and ImmunoCellular's chief scientific officer.
When I was first started working with Dr. Yu, one of his goals for me was to do Immunotherapy, which of course, didn't actually apply to me. In layman's terms, the focus is to inject part of the tumor back into my body, but the only way this would've worked if my first post-op MRI would match the second MRI. Mine didn't match.
Not that it matters now ... like I've said before, the current regimen works, so no regrets.
lee
