On 4/13/2008
Flower1 wrote:
Hi Leonard,
Thanks for answering. I hope you and your wife are still doing well. As you may recall Peter was given 2-3 months, after the unfinished surgery May last year. He is still with us and doing quite well. Works 3 full days a week and still plays squash. However we think the cancer is spreading now; there is a lymfenote in his neck that seems to be infected.
Regarding the dendritic cell therapy, a friend of us drew our attention to this. It seems quite successful in case of a few Pancreas cancer patients. I do not blindly hope for a miracle, but since this therapy is without side-effects, I am trying to find out whether it would be an option for Peter. He is still so strong at this moment that it seems worth, at least, to think about it and try to get more information.
I also wrote to the doctor concerned, a Dutchman who works in Cologne in Germany and hope to get an answer on my question whether or not Klatskin patients have this option. I will keep you informed if you are interested.
Thanks again for your reaction and wishing you and your wife all the best,
Iris.
Hi Iris,
I'm very pleased to here Pter is doing well. Being that you think the cancer is moving to a lymph node maybe the Dendritic Cell Therapy will work.
Keep looking and trying...you sound like a very strong and loving person.
Please keep me updated and yes, my wife is doing well...after 4 PET/CTscans the cancer is gone. Now the only issues are the bacterial infections she gets because of the Roux-en-Y procedure that was performed at surgery. Karen is now on round the clock antibiotics, they wanted to go with a pick-line to deliver the antibiotics but we voted that one out. We are hoping we can get the right combo of oral antibiotics to work. Bacterial infections are just as deadly as cancer when it hits the blood stream.
Talk to you later...Leonard