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The latest news:
Advancing “Breakthrough” Drug Therapies Looks like the FDA finally understands what we are going through. It kills me that treatments that are looking great in clinical trials have to wait years to become available. Especially things that are relatively harmless and are used in addition to the standard treatment, such as the vaccines (CDX-110, DC-VAX and ICT-107 are the front runners and there are a few more vaccines), as well as 5-ALA - the dye that lights up brain tumors so the surgeon can get more out. We need to help the companies that make these drugs get "breakthrough" status..
City MD sues radiologists over tumour, brain damage I usually don't publish stories about lawsuits but this brings up an important point: When you are told the scan is "stable" that usually means that there is less than about 25% growth or shrinkage. If you have a string of 4 "stable" scans in a row, and each one actually had 24% growth, you could have a tumor double in size and still be called stable. It is imperative to go back to the original post-op or post-radiation scan and compare that to the current scan.
RTK inhibition: looking for the right pathways toward a miracle. This is theoretical but I love the thought process.. this researcher thinks he knows why Avastin sometimes fails - and thinks he may have a way to block the failure. He did not try it yet - just thinking about it. We (the Musella Foundation) have funded 2 similiar projects - looking at drugs to add to Avastin to make it work better. The first one failed to show a benefit, but the second one is still ongoing. I think this concept is the way to a big breakthrough. We just need to find the right combination.
