Based on my bloodwork today, my LDH levels have gone from 245 to 187. This is good news, but my oncologist said it's a big jump and maybe perhaps it's nothing to get excited about as LD can be affected by many different events. I told him that I was going to believe it was the fact that I had tumours missing in my lungs. 🙂 Anyway, my Absolute Lymphocyte count when I first started was 1.85, now it's 2.28 which he said is a good trend. I really don't know what these numbers means exactly, but the fact my ALC is higher and my LD is lower is good news. As my Dr.
Based on my bloodwork today, my LDH levels have gone from 245 to 187. This is good news, but my oncologist said it's a big jump and maybe perhaps it's nothing to get excited about as LD can be affected by many different events. I told him that I was going to believe it was the fact that I had tumours missing in my lungs. 🙂 Anyway, my Absolute Lymphocyte count when I first started was 1.85, now it's 2.28 which he said is a good trend. I really don't know what these numbers means exactly, but the fact my ALC is higher and my LD is lower is good news. As my Dr. also pointed out, my bloodwork doesn't show any progression "it's beautiful".
I havn't been having many symptoms, but my Dr. confirmed that symptoms doesn't necessarily mean it's not working and that many people have been responding without any symptoms whatsoever in his trial. They are seeing more itching than rashes and that's the only thing I've had so far. We also discussed IL-2 after ipi (if this doesn't work) and he mentioned that the Dr. running the IL-2 program in Buffalo suggested these combo's of IL-2 after ipi were showing good results.
ipi #3 tomorrow and I'm going to keep hoping that I respond to this drug!
Lisa
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