Dear Dale, I am also a colon cancer survivor stage IV in remission. I have not had the same experiences as you, I responded well and went into remission thank God. I would suggest Vitamin E as a supplement and green tea. Also go to http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/disease/colon/faq/
they may have more answers for you. good luck
Gail Estes
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale H. McCallon <dmccallon@home.com>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 8:55 PM
Subject: [MOL] colon cancer - liver metastasis
>Hi,
>
>I had a tennis ball sized malignant tumor and 16"
>of my ascending colon removed on May 2, 1998. The
>tumor was a poorly differentiated carcinoma. I
>was advanced and several lesions showed on my
>liver, confirmed by needle biopsy. The lesions
>are unresectable at this point.
>
>I took two series of 5FU and leucovorin which
>lasted 13 weeks. I had no response.
>
>I looked into cryotherapy at UCLA Medical Center
>and was rejected due to having too many lesions on
>my liver.
>
>I am currently in an experimental clinical study,
>called CEA Peptide Pulsed Dendric Cell Vaccine,
>at USC in Los Angeles. It involves the extraction
>of my white cells and external treatment to
>supercharge them. A vaccine is developed from the
>newly charged white cells and inoculated back onto
>my system. This process is intended to boost my
>immune system to allow the treated white cells to
>more effectively kill the colon cancer cells on my
>liver. If this is successful and we get shrinkage
>of the lesions, I am looking into RF Radiotherapy
>to debulk and kill the lesions on my liver. This
>is done by the use of probes inserted directly
>through my skin and into the lesions of the liver
>using RF waves to burn the tumors. This procedure
>was developed at Boston Scientific and is now
>available in several cities in the US.
>
>Question: Has anyone had the latter treatment?
>What was it like? How effective was it for you
>and did you require surgery later?
>
>Question: Does anyone with a similar condition to
>mine have any leads on alternative treatments that
>worked for you.
>
>Meanwhile, I continue to look for the next
>treatment in case the current one doesn't work.
>Time is running out.
>
>Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
>
>--
>Dale H. McCallon
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