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From: aladin	4/2/2005 8:41:18 AM
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Good news. My wife has faced a lot of hardship over the past 10 years, not the least of which was having her medical team tell us in December that her 4th series of chemotherapy had failed. We met with our lawyer and updated all of her stuff (living will, medical power of attorney etc), but we also took one last shot at her cancer with a new class of drug in a clinical trial that the Duke team thought was worth the trouble. This may also explain some of my harshness on the thread on some posts related to Terri Shiavo. Most of us are thinking about ourselves and what we would want - and none of us want to be in Terri's state (or at least me), but those of us with sick spouses do look at it differently. But back to the good news: At her first 6 week MRI she had a positive response and some shrinkage in the tumor, but we were very apprehensive when we went in Thursday for her 2nd cycle review, her last 3 chemo treatments had been positive at first and then failed. Neither of us or her doctors were prepared to see an MRI with the tumor completely gone. 8cm*5cm Anaplastic Astrocytoma in December and now undetectable. Her neuro-oncologist was speechless (and yes - he had checked the films multiple times and had the radiologists confirm the results). They still want her to complete the program and she had her 3rd cycle of Chemo Thursday (this chemo agent requires 9 cycles of 6 weeks each), but I can tell you its a lot easier to go through knowing it is having an impact. We don't know what the future holds, but for us its a lot brighter at the moment. I didn't post this publicly yesterday for reasons of the date. In addition, in a state of euphoria, I made the mistake of telling someone about it on a message board for the company making the chemo agent - and was accused of pimping the stock - so we don't need to mention any company names. For that matter we do not know if her response is patient specific or a combination effect with her other meds. It could also be a cumulative impact from prior chemo treatments. And the reality is we don't care at the moment :-) Our older son came home from Clemson last night and as much as her post-chemo nausea will permit - we will be celebrating this weekend. I am up after dropping the younger son at Lacrosse practice and will sign off for a few days. Thanks and bye!

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