CancerCompass message board discussion started by Flower1 on 4/12/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,22981,0.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Does anyone have experience with a rather new therapy against cancer, called dendritic cell therapy?It seems that a Dutch doctor, started experimenting with this possibility to increase the defence system of your body and however this is disputed he also seems to have made remarkable results by terminal patients. However, I cannot find that he also cured a Klatskin cancer.I appreciate information from anyone who knows more about this therapy.Iris (the Netherlands). Flower1 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 4/12/2008 Flower1 wrote:Does anyone have experience with a rather new therapy against cancer, called dendritic cell therapy?It seems that a Dutch doctor, started experimenting with this possibility to increase the defence system of your body and however this is disputed he also seems to have made remarkable results by terminal patients. However, I cannot find that he also cured a Klatskin cancer.I appreciate information from anyone who knows more about this therapy.Iris (the Netherlands).Hi Iris,This is Leonard from Alamo, CA...have spoken with you for a while.  I can't remember all your previous issues, but I do remember chatting with you.I did some resarch on Dendritic Cell Therapy and could not fine anything specific regarding the Dentritic Cell Therapy and Klatskin Tumor. I went to Google and typed in as many things as I could think of, but nothing jumped out that said Dendritic Cell Therapy cures a Klatskin Tumor....I believe the only sure thing is surgery to remove the tumor is the most successful approach.All the articles I read about this alternative therapy so good, but I think if you have a Klatskin Tumor after stage I or maybe even smaller  - it my be too late for the Dendritic Cell Therapy to help. Nice chatting with you...hopefully all to well with you and your loved one.Bye for now, Leonard        Solutions Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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. Flower1 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 4/13/2008 Flower1 wrote:Hi Leonard,Thanks for answering. I hope you and your wife arestill doing well. As you may recall Peter was given 2-3 months, afterthe unfinished surgery May last year. He is still with us and doingquite well. Works 3 full days a week and still plays squash. However wethink the cancer is spreading now; there is a lymfenote in his neckthat seems to be infected.Regarding the dendritic cell therapy,a friend of us drew our attention to this. It seems quite successful incase of a few Pancreas cancer patients. I do not blindly hope for amiracle, but since this therapy is without side-effects, I am trying tofind out whether it would be an option for Peter. He is still so strongat this moment that it seems worth, at least, to think about it and tryto get more information.I also wrote to the doctor concerned, aDutchman who works in Cologne in Germany and hope to get an answer onmy question whether or not Klatskin patients have this option. I willkeep you informed if you are interested.Thanks again for your reaction and wishing you and your wife all the best,Iris.Iam currently doing the dendritc cell therapy for breast cancer stage IVthat has spread to the bones.  I had completed chemo treatmentswhen I was first diagnosed 7 years ago with radiation.  I also didcyber knife radiation to the spine last year.  My Oncologistprescribed Zometa and Lupron shots which I did for about a year. I stopped the ant-hormone and zometa shots due to the side effects andnot being effective.  I started to have jaw pain (chronicinfection) from the Zometa.  I started the dendritic celltherapy Dec. 07.  I self adminster the vaccine weekly and have hadno side effects.  I went to the Oasis Hospital in Mexico, IsselsFoundation to obtain my vaccine.  I spent two days at the hospitaland went home with a 4 month vaccine supply that cost aproximately$7,500 total.  Unfortunatly, medical insurance companies stillconsider dendritic cell therapy to be experimental.  Although, Iunderstand it has been FDA approved for T-Lymphoma, just not othercancers.  You can google Issels Foundation or OasisHospital in Tijuana for more information.  I am being optimisticabout the dendritic cell therapy since all other treatments havefailed.  I hope this information helps you.  I wish you thebest.  If you need further information,please feel free to contactme.      Greenplayer Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT  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     Solutions Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT  On 4/13/2008 Greenplayer wrote: On 4/13/2008 Flower1 wrote:Hi Leonard,Thanks for answering. I hope you and your wife arestill doing well. As you may recall Peter was given 2-3 months, afterthe unfinished surgery May last year. He is still with us and doingquite well. Works 3 full days a week and still plays squash. However wethink the cancer is spreading now; there is a lymfenote in his neckthat seems to be infected.Regarding the dendritic cell therapy,a friend of us drew our attention to this. It seems quite successful incase of a few Pancreas cancer patients. I do not blindly hope for amiracle, but since this therapy is without side-effects, I am trying tofind out whether it would be an option for Peter. He is still so strongat this moment that it seems worth, at least, to think about it and tryto get more information.I also wrote to the doctor concerned, aDutchman who works in Cologne in Germany and hope to get an answer onmy question whether or not Klatskin patients have this option. I willkeep you informed if you are interested.Thanks again for your reaction and wishing you and your wife all the best,Iris.Iam currently doing the dendritc cell therapy for breast cancer stage IVthat has spread to the bones.  I had completed chemo treatmentswhen I was first diagnosed 7 years ago with radiation.  I also didcyber knife radiation to the spine last year.  My Oncologistprescribed Zometa and Lupron shots which I did for about a year. I stopped the ant-hormone and zometa shots due to the side effects andnot being effective.  I started to have jaw pain (chronicinfection) from the Zometa.  I started the dendritic celltherapy Dec. 07.  I self adminster the vaccine weekly and have hadno side effects.  I went to the Oasis Hospital in Mexico, IsselsFoundation to obtain my vaccine.  I spent two days at the hospitaland went home with a 4 month vaccine supply that cost aproximately$7,500 total.  Unfortunatly, medical insurance companies stillconsider dendritic cell therapy to be experimental.  Although, Iunderstand it has been FDA approved for T-Lymphoma, just not othercancers.  You can google Issels Foundation or OasisHospital in Tijuana for more information.  I am being optimisticabout the dendritic cell therapy since all other treatments havefailed.  I hope this information helps you.  I wish you thebest.  If you need further information,please feel free to contactme.    Thank you very much for your reply. I wish you all the best with this therapy, that has some remarkable results. For the type of cancer my husband has (Klatskin cancer is in the gall ways), this therapy seems not possible.Wishing you all the best,Iris.  Flower1 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT