Clinical Trial for PARP Inhibitors at WVU

anonymice
anonymice Member Posts: 532
edited June 2014 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

If you live anywhere near West Virginia and would like information about a clinical trial for triple negative targeted therapy that is yielding great results, you can click here to learn more:  http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2010/11/16/wvu-cancer-center-participates-in-national-study-on-new-drug-for-hard-to-treat-breast-cancer

Dr Abraham is my oncologist...he is the the Medical Director of the cancer center and is a wonderful, warm man who yields great results - a large part of that is that he seems to have no personal ego about his treatments and is a very strong networker, sharing and taking in really up to date information, encouraging second opinions.  (He is my oncologist because I have Inflammatory breast cancer - doing great so far!).    

I believe that if Dr. Abraham is excited about results, they are solid and valid and so may be worth investigating for some. 

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  • dlcw
    dlcw Member Posts: 107
    edited December 2010

    Hi PaminWV,

     Are you on this trial?  I met yesterday with a doc at Stanford that has a neoadjuvant trial with this drug combo - I would get this combo for an 18-week trial, have surgery, then do other chemo as the doc said this is a novel treatment for neoadjuvant and they would recommend followup with more traditional drugs.  I feel like it's a chance to go super aggressive and throw everything at it in the beginning (this followed by AC/T most likely) but haven't committed yet.  Would love to know if you are in this study and if so how it's going.  If you are not, have you heard about others beyond the 2 success stories in the article?

    Thanks!

    dlcw

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  • anonymice
    anonymice Member Posts: 532
    edited December 2010

    No, dl, I'm not on the trial ( I am her2 +) - I heard about it on public radio this morning, I recognized my oncologist's voice in the interview and it caught my attention.  But the results have been amazing!

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  • cvstearns
    cvstearns Member Posts: 4
    edited December 2010

    Hi All,

    I am trip neg, BRCA2 positive. I am starting a PARP inhibitor trial at Emory in GA next week. The drug is ABT-888 in conjuction with carbo and taxol. I am on my 4th recurrence. Hoping this drug is the silver bullet triple negs have been praying for!

    Carolyn

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  • anonymice
    anonymice Member Posts: 532
    edited December 2010

    Best of luck, Carolyn, it sure has been a silver bullet for some people!

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