If Breasts Were Testicles......

I hope insurance companies will be accepting of immune therapy. A friend of mine with colon cancer that went to the liver was only given 4 months to live with chemo a couple months longer she researched and finally got a plane to Germany and did immune therapy with almost no side effects that was about 2 years ago. She has tumor markers they can monitor so far all the cancer is gone. They resected her liver and took out the colon cancer, her husband is retired but I used to work with him the insurance we both have didn't pay for any of her immune therapy. She says that she was not accepted into any US trials because they didn't expect her to live long enough or she needed to have done the chemo first.

They were lucky they had the money to send her to Germany.

Perhaps we will find young people who have seen first or second hand the current treatment available and see a need to change.

Oh I know she was trying to get the word out. She went back to her original onco and told him. He was very excited for her but told her that her outcome was definately not the normal expected outcome. She said well you could tell your patients and let them decide. He still held fast that she basically hit the lottery and that immune therapy is not there yet.

I'd like to see October turned to Cancer Cure Month. All Cancers. Enough awareness of all kinds already. I am grateful for the advances made. Since my diagnoses 3 years ago 2 more tx for Her2 early stagers have come on board. May they find help for those tin late stages and trip neg as well. And all other versions of that Damn cancer. 

Much love to all. 

I never get tired of hearing good news. I especially hope our stage 4 sisters get some good treatment options. There has been far too much suffering. Just like the Ebola victims get the new medicines to the people who need them the most.

In response to the title of this thread, I suspect that a man who has lost a testicle to cancer or dying of prostate cancer hates Movember as much as we hate pink October. They're both stupid and do absolutely nothing except exploit. Even my son, who regularly participates in Movember admits it's more for fun and has absolutely NOTHING to do with furthering a cause. It bothers him that it's related to such serious diseases. They just do it at their job to see who can come up with the most creative 'stache. All fun, no substance. So dumb. Not unlike that ice-bucket challenge. That did what exactly? Give apathetic, attention-seeking fame whores a reason to get their face on youtube?