I urge anyone with gastric cancer to ask their oncologist about using erbitux alongside irinotecan/PTC11. after failing on taxetere/cisplatin/5FU after it held off my wife's stage IV stomach cancer for 5 months, she went on PTC11 and almost died 3 months later when her tumors grew wildly all over her abdominal organs. erbitux was a last ditch effort and one offered to me only after seeking 2nd and 3rd oncologists opinions. note only certain folks express proteins etc the precise way that allows the erbitux to kick in with the extent it has in my 35yr old wife - who had a 50% shrinkage across the board in her tumors the first 6 weeks she was on the PTC11-Erbitux cocktail. Note it worked so well that she almost died due to a perforation in the wall of her stomach that came about as her 9cm tumor there shrunk to 5cm. after a difficult surgery in october my wife is back on this regimen and the main gastric tumor is 3cm, allowing her to eat quite a bit. more importantly her liver and pancreatic tumors have come under control and shrunk ~60% from their peak after 3 months of PTC11 alone this summer. but i realize that this concoction will not work forever and wonder who else has cutting edge ideas for unknown or non-mainstream chemo for gastric cancer, even if such treatment involves going outside the country and paying cash for such services. until then i pray for a cure to all cancers this Christmas season as I chase our 2.5yr old daughter around (I took a leave of absence from my job when my wife was diagnosed last year, thus the "Mr. Mom" moniker. -- MM