Nivolumab as first-line treatment
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Nivolumab as first-line treatment

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      • July 1, 2014 at 12:38 pm
      mary1233
      Participant

      What is even more exciting about this trial is that the wild type mutations were specifically randomized. The wild types have just started to become part of the clinical trials, and here we have one that worked so well that they stopped it early.

      When I was diagnosed in 2012 with wild type mucosal melanoma my doctor offered me a chemo treatment that had been part of a very small study in China. He said he did not know if it would work, but that if I had come in six months earlier, he would have had no ajuvant options to offer me.

      My how things have change.

      Good luck to all.

       

      • July 1, 2014 at 12:38 pm
      mary1233
      Participant

      What is even more exciting about this trial is that the wild type mutations were specifically randomized. The wild types have just started to become part of the clinical trials, and here we have one that worked so well that they stopped it early.

      When I was diagnosed in 2012 with wild type mucosal melanoma my doctor offered me a chemo treatment that had been part of a very small study in China. He said he did not know if it would work, but that if I had come in six months earlier, he would have had no ajuvant options to offer me.

      My how things have change.

      Good luck to all.

       

      • July 1, 2014 at 12:38 pm
      mary1233
      Participant

      What is even more exciting about this trial is that the wild type mutations were specifically randomized. The wild types have just started to become part of the clinical trials, and here we have one that worked so well that they stopped it early.

      When I was diagnosed in 2012 with wild type mucosal melanoma my doctor offered me a chemo treatment that had been part of a very small study in China. He said he did not know if it would work, but that if I had come in six months earlier, he would have had no ajuvant options to offer me.

      My how things have change.

      Good luck to all.

       

        • July 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm
        Ninniditti
        Participant

        Hi, I just wonder which chemo treatment  you got and did it work?  I also have mucosal melanoma and have no treatments left. 

        • September 10, 2014 at 2:46 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        Did they sequence your tumor or just run specific tests on it?   Sequencung costs a l ot more but finds new mutations that they didn't know were assiciateds with many types of specific cancers.  Finding the dorrect rare myuttion can maake a big difference.

         

        • September 10, 2014 at 2:46 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        Did they sequence your tumor or just run specific tests on it?   Sequencung costs a l ot more but finds new mutations that they didn't know were assiciateds with many types of specific cancers.  Finding the dorrect rare myuttion can maake a big difference.

         

        • September 10, 2014 at 2:46 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        Did they sequence your tumor or just run specific tests on it?   Sequencung costs a l ot more but finds new mutations that they didn't know were assiciateds with many types of specific cancers.  Finding the dorrect rare myuttion can maake a big difference.

         

        • July 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm
        Ninniditti
        Participant

        Hi, I just wonder which chemo treatment  you got and did it work?  I also have mucosal melanoma and have no treatments left. 

        • July 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm
        Ninniditti
        Participant

        Hi, I just wonder which chemo treatment  you got and did it work?  I also have mucosal melanoma and have no treatments left. 

      • September 10, 2014 at 2:59 am
      JerryfromFauq
      Participant

      Glad to see more "Wild Type" Genes being included in triaals.  Of course 'Wild Type" has limited meaning since it just mean that a specific mutation tested for within a specific gene was not found. It is not a subset in the KNOWN mutatioins for a gene, nor necessarily any mutation in a particular gene. .   Doesn't even mean that a common melanoma gene did not have a different mutation than the "common" tested for that paricular gene.  I.E. Wild Type of (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect0  "does not even mean that ones tumors does not still have a mutation in those particular genes (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect, just that they didn't have the tested for mutation,

      • September 10, 2014 at 2:59 am
      JerryfromFauq
      Participant

      Glad to see more "Wild Type" Genes being included in triaals.  Of course 'Wild Type" has limited meaning since it just mean that a specific mutation tested for within a specific gene was not found. It is not a subset in the KNOWN mutatioins for a gene, nor necessarily any mutation in a particular gene. .   Doesn't even mean that a common melanoma gene did not have a different mutation than the "common" tested for that paricular gene.  I.E. Wild Type of (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect0  "does not even mean that ones tumors does not still have a mutation in those particular genes (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect, just that they didn't have the tested for mutation,

      • September 10, 2014 at 2:59 am
      JerryfromFauq
      Participant

      Glad to see more "Wild Type" Genes being included in triaals.  Of course 'Wild Type" has limited meaning since it just mean that a specific mutation tested for within a specific gene was not found. It is not a subset in the KNOWN mutatioins for a gene, nor necessarily any mutation in a particular gene. .   Doesn't even mean that a common melanoma gene did not have a different mutation than the "common" tested for that paricular gene.  I.E. Wild Type of (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect0  "does not even mean that ones tumors does not still have a mutation in those particular genes (BRAF, kIT, NRAS, ect, just that they didn't have the tested for mutation,

        • September 10, 2014 at 5:48 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        An example of the differing mutations within a known gene is given here for the Kit mutation that my melanoma tumors contain.  This also shows how some cancerous tumors that have a mutation in: 

        Mutations in the exons 11, 9 and rarely 13 and 17 of the c-kit gene are known to occur in GIST. The tyrosine kinase function of c-kit is important in the medical therapy for GISTs, as described below.

        • KIT-D816V point mutations in c-kit exon 17 are responsible for resistance to targeted therapy drugs like imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

        • KIT-p.D419del (exon 8) – A subset of gastrointestinal stromal tumors previously regarded as wild-type tumors carries somatic activating mutations in KIT exon 8 (p.D419del).[8]

         

        • September 10, 2014 at 5:48 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        An example of the differing mutations within a known gene is given here for the Kit mutation that my melanoma tumors contain.  This also shows how some cancerous tumors that have a mutation in: 

        Mutations in the exons 11, 9 and rarely 13 and 17 of the c-kit gene are known to occur in GIST. The tyrosine kinase function of c-kit is important in the medical therapy for GISTs, as described below.

        • KIT-D816V point mutations in c-kit exon 17 are responsible for resistance to targeted therapy drugs like imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

        • KIT-p.D419del (exon 8) – A subset of gastrointestinal stromal tumors previously regarded as wild-type tumors carries somatic activating mutations in KIT exon 8 (p.D419del).[8]

         

        • September 10, 2014 at 5:48 am
        JerryfromFauq
        Participant

        An example of the differing mutations within a known gene is given here for the Kit mutation that my melanoma tumors contain.  This also shows how some cancerous tumors that have a mutation in: 

        Mutations in the exons 11, 9 and rarely 13 and 17 of the c-kit gene are known to occur in GIST. The tyrosine kinase function of c-kit is important in the medical therapy for GISTs, as described below.

        • KIT-D816V point mutations in c-kit exon 17 are responsible for resistance to targeted therapy drugs like imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

        • KIT-p.D419del (exon 8) – A subset of gastrointestinal stromal tumors previously regarded as wild-type tumors carries somatic activating mutations in KIT exon 8 (p.D419del).[8]

         

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