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    • December 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm
    DA Boston 42
    Participant
    Has anyone used Imiquimod with success? I think some people call it Aldera.
    Thanks,
    Don

    Has anyone used Imiquimod with success? I think some people call it Aldera.
    Thanks,
    Don

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      • December 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
      NYKaren
      Participant
      Hi Don,
      I used it with partial success. When I was undergoing IL-2 treatment, I also applied Aldera to my mets. At that time, my cutaneous mets were between my eye and ear–they did clear up. But my response to IL-2 was short-lived as was my Aldera response. I grew new ones & my onc derm would freeze them and I would apply Aldera every night. It helped a little, then not at all.
      The doc said it didn’t work as they had hoped.
      More recently I was in a clinical trial for DPCP, a topical agent used successfully in Australia on cutaneous metatastic Mel. But then I requested a second BRAF test and it was positive, so I just began Zelbarof and had to stop the DPCP trial. It’s at Rockefeller University Hospital around the corner from sloan and they are recruiting.
      Hope this helps,
      Karen
      • December 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
      NYKaren
      Participant
      Hi Don,
      I used it with partial success. When I was undergoing IL-2 treatment, I also applied Aldera to my mets. At that time, my cutaneous mets were between my eye and ear–they did clear up. But my response to IL-2 was short-lived as was my Aldera response. I grew new ones & my onc derm would freeze them and I would apply Aldera every night. It helped a little, then not at all.
      The doc said it didn’t work as they had hoped.
      More recently I was in a clinical trial for DPCP, a topical agent used successfully in Australia on cutaneous metatastic Mel. But then I requested a second BRAF test and it was positive, so I just began Zelbarof and had to stop the DPCP trial. It’s at Rockefeller University Hospital around the corner from sloan and they are recruiting.
      Hope this helps,
      Karen
      • December 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm
      NYKaren
      Participant
      Hi Don,
      I used it with partial success. When I was undergoing IL-2 treatment, I also applied Aldera to my mets. At that time, my cutaneous mets were between my eye and ear–they did clear up. But my response to IL-2 was short-lived as was my Aldera response. I grew new ones & my onc derm would freeze them and I would apply Aldera every night. It helped a little, then not at all.
      The doc said it didn’t work as they had hoped.
      More recently I was in a clinical trial for DPCP, a topical agent used successfully in Australia on cutaneous metatastic Mel. But then I requested a second BRAF test and it was positive, so I just began Zelbarof and had to stop the DPCP trial. It’s at Rockefeller University Hospital around the corner from sloan and they are recruiting.
      Hope this helps,
      Karen
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