April 3: Mom is nearing the finish line for her clinical trial. The last round of post-surgery chemotherapy is tomorrow. And she received some promising news last week — she may be a good candidate for a clinical trial vaccine that we have been researching. The pancreatic cancer vaccine clinical trial is based at Northwestern University in Chicago. If she decides to participate, Mom will go down for 12 injections over the course of about six months. Click here for more info on the clinical trial.
Here’s an article on cancer vaccines from WebMD.
Johns Hopkins has a different kind of vaccine, but they have a nice website that describes in a flash movie how a pancreatic cancer vaccine works.
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia