On Tuesday, July 4, 2017, 8:45:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: [...] > On Monday June 19 I got an infusion of ipilimumab which is an > immunotherapy drug. 2 days later I got a series of 3 radiation > treatments (21st thru 23rd). Dosage, 3 fractions of 9gy xrays from > Varian Trilogy set at 9MV. These treatment we unusual in that instead of > irradiating the whole tumor, I asked that they just burn a disk in the > center of the main tumor leaving the rest of the tumor undamaged. This > request was very counter intuitive in radiology because they are trained > to kill every cancer cell they can possibly hit and it took a lot of > work to get them to deliberately leave tumor undamaged.
> But that was important because I was turning the tumor into a school, > not a battlefield, where I was teaching my immune system what the cancer > looked like (antigens) and classify it as an enemy. By using partial > radiation I created an environment where white blood cells in my immune > system could interact with dead cancer and learn it. > 4 days after treatment I started getting a reaction. I was queasy, low > energy, aches and pains, chills. Wgen I got home I had a fever of 101, > and it occurred to me, is this the fever I was hoping for? > Fever indicates that I'm having an immune response. My immune system is > fighting something. Was it attacking the cancer? [..] Hi Mark, Thanks for the great news. I truly hope it worked as planned. If this is something no one else has thought of before, then obviously document it for science so it may save other people's lives. :) Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/