Issels Treatment Center

I read about this program also...as you can see I'm always reading and searching.  I think this is another excellent program. The clinic in US is cheaper because there is no room and board involved.  Mexico you have meals and a room for you and a guess. A lot of the protocol's are like the one's at Oasis of Hope Hospital... they share the same building. There are still limits on what they can do at the US clinic's.

Flalady

I just remember one of the protocol's there was they make a vaccine out of your own tumor.

Carol1949,

I will be three years from original diagnoses in November and never made remission. (came very close earlier this year.) When you have localized recurrence the second time in the chest wall area you are considered Stage IV. (for me that has been 2 1/2 years)  I have been told my three top clinic's that the chest wall is the hardest area to treat. With my first mast. I was told I had three to six months to live.  I made a lier out of them:)  I have worked full time through all 30+ dose dense chemos (7 different kinds)  three surgeries and rads because I chose to do alternative along with conventional. (and with God's mercy) I had 57 nodes positive for cancer.  Right now I have a return of Inflammatory bc, along with clavical area and nodes "next" to liver/lung. But I feel great and still working and enjoying life.  I have found someone to work with me here in Florida just this week that does many treatments I wanted from these clinic's.  Don't give up there are some in all part's of the country.  I mortgage my house for treatment.  I rather be homeless and alive than gone worrying who to leave the house too....(I'm single) I believe there is more than one way to skin this cat. (can you tell I'm a southern?)  Best wishes to all you girls who are looking for hope.  I have found hope in education about all my options.

Flalady

Maryiz,

I did a clinical trial at MD Anderson Houston in the early part of 2007.  I will never do anther Phase I or II again...nor will I ever go near that place again.  This is were I got my server neuropathy from, with a trial on a drug that the Germany knew it was useless four years earlier.  They damage many people to the point for complete disability with no response.  They called me a year later to finally ask me how I was doing and if I had any side effects. Please a year later...the lady on the phone said that they were having so horrible side effects.  I ask her if they were still playing with this drug a year later...she said Yes. I was very unimpressed with research clinics.  (been to #1 and #10)  They were playing with drugs that I rec'd 3 years ago outside of trials.  My onc. can get many pretty much any drug I want.  But with server neuropathy I can not do chemo without risking permanent disability from Level 3-4 neuropathy.  I also have shown also most complete resistant to chemo from day one.  My tumor triple in size while on ACT dose dense.  This pretty much told me not to rely on chemos as my only hope...

As you can see I have given conventional treatment many chances....they have given NO hope per all three clinics I have been treated at.  I chose to live in hope that there is another way...

Flalady

PS: I had one cancer center tell me that when they were playing with stem cell transplant for bc patients they learned that they could kill bc in most mets...but not the chest wall.  From what I've been told it is very rare to have so many local recurrences...I was told I'm ahead of science. Just lovely....