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Reason to stay positive and hopeful for a cure

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    • December 1, 2015 at 7:53 pm
    mdoh
    Participant

    In a recent article posted on OncLive, James Allison on the Future of Checkpoint Inhibitors in Melanoma,  Dr. James Allison stated…"

    What is on the horizon for immunotherapy in melanoma?

    With the variety of combinations that have come to bear, the response rates are going to continue to go up. I think we are going to get to a point very soon where the majority of patients with late-stage melanoma are going to be able to look toward decades of response. To use the “C” word, I think we are heading toward a cure.

    Thanks to all of you who posted recently about your ongoing battles with this demon called melanoma.  We're fighting a good fight and one day soon according to Dr. Allison we just might win!

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      • December 1, 2015 at 8:17 pm
      AllysonRuth
      Participant

      Thank you so much for posting this!  I just read the whole article.  It brings me hope that I might be able to raise my five precious children because of the work of scientists.  What an amazing man whom I am very grateful for.  I can't help but think of all the people between 1995 and 2011 who could have benefitted from his immunology drug who are now gone.  I am on Keytruda and praying my immune system is responding!

      • December 1, 2015 at 8:17 pm
      AllysonRuth
      Participant

      Thank you so much for posting this!  I just read the whole article.  It brings me hope that I might be able to raise my five precious children because of the work of scientists.  What an amazing man whom I am very grateful for.  I can't help but think of all the people between 1995 and 2011 who could have benefitted from his immunology drug who are now gone.  I am on Keytruda and praying my immune system is responding!

      • December 1, 2015 at 8:17 pm
      AllysonRuth
      Participant

      Thank you so much for posting this!  I just read the whole article.  It brings me hope that I might be able to raise my five precious children because of the work of scientists.  What an amazing man whom I am very grateful for.  I can't help but think of all the people between 1995 and 2011 who could have benefitted from his immunology drug who are now gone.  I am on Keytruda and praying my immune system is responding!

      • December 1, 2015 at 9:05 pm
      arthurjedi007
      Participant

      Thank you for giving me some hope. I really need it. I'm supposed to see my mda doc next week. I hope he's on the same page as this doc and can help me. Decades? Wow. With my worsening disease I've been thinking in months at best.

      Artie

      • December 1, 2015 at 9:05 pm
      arthurjedi007
      Participant

      Thank you for giving me some hope. I really need it. I'm supposed to see my mda doc next week. I hope he's on the same page as this doc and can help me. Decades? Wow. With my worsening disease I've been thinking in months at best.

      Artie

        • December 2, 2015 at 1:58 am
        AshleyS
        Participant

        Artie,

        Dr. Allison is a researcher at MDA. Best of luck at your appointment. 

        Ashley

        • December 2, 2015 at 1:58 am
        AshleyS
        Participant

        Artie,

        Dr. Allison is a researcher at MDA. Best of luck at your appointment. 

        Ashley

        • December 2, 2015 at 1:58 am
        AshleyS
        Participant

        Artie,

        Dr. Allison is a researcher at MDA. Best of luck at your appointment. 

        Ashley

      • December 1, 2015 at 9:05 pm
      arthurjedi007
      Participant

      Thank you for giving me some hope. I really need it. I'm supposed to see my mda doc next week. I hope he's on the same page as this doc and can help me. Decades? Wow. With my worsening disease I've been thinking in months at best.

      Artie

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:34 am
      kylez
      Participant

      Thanks for posting that article.

      Speaking of hope, i'd love to hear what Jim Allison has to say about gut flora (and poop) in relation to immunotherapy. Another recent MPIP thread mentioned studies by UChicago that seemed to indicate that gut flora appears to have a huge influene on the efficacy of ipilimumab, for one.

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:34 am
      kylez
      Participant

      Thanks for posting that article.

      Speaking of hope, i'd love to hear what Jim Allison has to say about gut flora (and poop) in relation to immunotherapy. Another recent MPIP thread mentioned studies by UChicago that seemed to indicate that gut flora appears to have a huge influene on the efficacy of ipilimumab, for one.

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:34 am
      kylez
      Participant

      Thanks for posting that article.

      Speaking of hope, i'd love to hear what Jim Allison has to say about gut flora (and poop) in relation to immunotherapy. Another recent MPIP thread mentioned studies by UChicago that seemed to indicate that gut flora appears to have a huge influene on the efficacy of ipilimumab, for one.

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:42 am
      kylez
      Participant

      That info is on this MPIP thread.

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:42 am
      kylez
      Participant

      That info is on this MPIP thread.

      • December 2, 2015 at 2:42 am
      kylez
      Participant

      That info is on this MPIP thread.

        • December 2, 2015 at 2:24 pm
        ed williams
        Participant

        I think it is still early days in the mouse poop research field! I have read some interesting material by Dr. Omid Hamid of the Angeles clinic on developments in human tumor tissue and blood test that will allow in the near future for Oncologist to better advise patients on which of the new Immunotherapies or target therapies will best work based on the new test that are being developed. Ed

        • December 2, 2015 at 2:24 pm
        ed williams
        Participant

        I think it is still early days in the mouse poop research field! I have read some interesting material by Dr. Omid Hamid of the Angeles clinic on developments in human tumor tissue and blood test that will allow in the near future for Oncologist to better advise patients on which of the new Immunotherapies or target therapies will best work based on the new test that are being developed. Ed

        • December 2, 2015 at 2:24 pm
        ed williams
        Participant

        I think it is still early days in the mouse poop research field! I have read some interesting material by Dr. Omid Hamid of the Angeles clinic on developments in human tumor tissue and blood test that will allow in the near future for Oncologist to better advise patients on which of the new Immunotherapies or target therapies will best work based on the new test that are being developed. Ed

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