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Does Opdivo Therapy Help In Treating Kidney Cancer?
Question: Dr. Grzegorz Stanko, no changes. Wed will be my 5th treatment with ocdivo shortly after I will have pelvic and chest scans to see if Kidney cancer reacted. I was watching Sunday talk shows and they talked about T-Cells. they were used on Pres. Carters brain and he’s cancer free. it was also mentioned that t- cell can be used on Kidney caner. Hardly any info about t-cell on line. also mentioned was directed therapies ( stem cell, DNA work ups ) don’t see any studies the Gov’t wedsite you gave me. Do you have any idea when these type of therapies will be available. I hoping the Ocdivo will give me a year or two more.
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Brief Answer:
Ocidivo is the best you can get right now.
Detailed Answer:
First of all some words about Pres. Carters disease. He is not cured. He is in remission. That is a important difference. If he is cured will be known after 5 years. Till that time, he may have single cancer cells left in the body which can develop new tumors. So media does not say the whole true.
Ocdivo is actually targeted therapy. Nowadays its the best you can get.
I am unable to answer the question about when other studies will be available. Its the great secret of pharmaceutic companies. Unfotunately this is where money meets life. They must ear on previously invented medicines before they will give new one. So there is much more medicines available right now, they are not just for regular people. That is sad and unfair but this is how this word is build.
As you are already on Ocidivo, clinical trials might be limited for you (they must get patients with the same, most common treatment arm). But still, it is worth to check trials and keep asking.
Here is an interesting trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT0000
Hope this helps.
Ocidivo is the best you can get right now.
Detailed Answer:
First of all some words about Pres. Carters disease. He is not cured. He is in remission. That is a important difference. If he is cured will be known after 5 years. Till that time, he may have single cancer cells left in the body which can develop new tumors. So media does not say the whole true.
Ocdivo is actually targeted therapy. Nowadays its the best you can get.
I am unable to answer the question about when other studies will be available. Its the great secret of pharmaceutic companies. Unfotunately this is where money meets life. They must ear on previously invented medicines before they will give new one. So there is much more medicines available right now, they are not just for regular people. That is sad and unfair but this is how this word is build.
As you are already on Ocidivo, clinical trials might be limited for you (they must get patients with the same, most common treatment arm). But still, it is worth to check trials and keep asking.
Here is an interesting trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT0000
Hope this helps.
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