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      • January 14, 2017 at 4:23 am
      snow white
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      I haven't heard of this.  Hopefully Celeste and Ed can chime in and let you know if they have.

      • January 14, 2017 at 4:23 am
      snow white
      Participant

      I haven't heard of this.  Hopefully Celeste and Ed can chime in and let you know if they have.

      • January 14, 2017 at 4:23 am
      snow white
      Participant

      I haven't heard of this.  Hopefully Celeste and Ed can chime in and let you know if they have.

      • January 14, 2017 at 5:40 am
      debwray
      Participant

      Hi Cindy,

      How did the radiation go ? Or is your Mum still waiting ?

      No experience but have read about this kind of personalised medicine where the tumours DNA is tested and bench tested against a known panel of anti cancer drugs and then the patient is given the one that looks the most promising. Sounds expensive to do and unlikely to be funded by big pharma   but if I rember correctly some melanomas responded to one of the breast cancer drugs.Think it was a Her2 drug in that case from memory. Will have a browse and see if I can find details or anything else about that might be useful.

      Best wishes

      Deb

      • January 14, 2017 at 5:40 am
      debwray
      Participant

      Hi Cindy,

      How did the radiation go ? Or is your Mum still waiting ?

      No experience but have read about this kind of personalised medicine where the tumours DNA is tested and bench tested against a known panel of anti cancer drugs and then the patient is given the one that looks the most promising. Sounds expensive to do and unlikely to be funded by big pharma   but if I rember correctly some melanomas responded to one of the breast cancer drugs.Think it was a Her2 drug in that case from memory. Will have a browse and see if I can find details or anything else about that might be useful.

      Best wishes

      Deb

      • January 14, 2017 at 5:40 am
      debwray
      Participant

      Hi Cindy,

      How did the radiation go ? Or is your Mum still waiting ?

      No experience but have read about this kind of personalised medicine where the tumours DNA is tested and bench tested against a known panel of anti cancer drugs and then the patient is given the one that looks the most promising. Sounds expensive to do and unlikely to be funded by big pharma   but if I rember correctly some melanomas responded to one of the breast cancer drugs.Think it was a Her2 drug in that case from memory. Will have a browse and see if I can find details or anything else about that might be useful.

      Best wishes

      Deb

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