CancerCompass message board discussion started by Walynj on 9/10/2006 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,6828,0.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ has anyone out there with islet cell carcinoma received the indium-111 treatment at Excel Diagnostic Imaging Center in Houston? I'm considering this as a possible treatment over chemo. Walynj Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT Sorry, I'm new at this and I haven't heard. Dave b Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT The treatment involves sitting in a chair reading or watching TV for four to five hours with an IV in your arm, and they bring you lunch. I have not experienced any side effects. The first treatment is supposed to stabilie the disease, although, in my case, it also shrink some of the tumors that have metastasized to the liver. (I have 20 in the liver). I am feeling fine, but really won't know the results of the second treatment until I go back there for testing next month. The medicine carries the radiation to the tumors, and I guess it works in your body for the following three months. Although the treatment, itself, takes only a short time, a 12-day stay in Houston is required because of all the testing before and afterward to determine if there is a good chance it will help you and to see how it is distributed in your body. If you take Sandostatin (i.e. octreotide or somatostatin)I think there is a good chance of being helped, because Indium-111 is delivered by pentetreotide, which is a derivative, but they would determine that before treatment. This is all done on an outpatient basis. If you have any questions, I would be happy to try to answer. Sincerely, Marie Tigerlillygal Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT