I sent this email to all my support list after my chemo session on June 29, 2016
Hi, some good news to report. Today’s PSA is 47 down from 84 (I should post a daily update on that number. It would become a big secret betting combine). That decline is 3 weeks after my first chemo. Good. I had chemo 2 today. Also today I began the process to enter a clinical trial for a drug being tested for prostate cancer. The drug is ipilimumab or “ippy”. The common name is Yervoy manufactured by Bristol Myers Squibb. I thank our good friends Angeles and Dennis Vitrella for listening attentively to an NPR broadcast and then following up with MD Anderson who ran the trials on the drug where it was shown as effective with some types of melanoma. I will find out in about a week if I can get into the trial. I hope so. A little miracle cure would just make my 2016. Link to the original broadcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/09/480435066/a-scientists-dream-fulfilled-harnessing-the-immune-system-to-fight-cancer
As always, thank you for your support.
Hug the ones you love, (and periodically throw in a stranger or someone you don’t love so much)
Dan
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