May 5: Mom and Dad drove down to Chicago last night for Mom’s first round of her anti-cancer vaccine. She had a new cat-scan taken last Friday, and when Dr. Oyama looked at it today, he said she remains cancer free. Yay! I can get used to this news:)
Here’s a link to a description of Mom’s new clinical trail.
Mom received eight intradermal injections today. The hope is that the vaccine will cause Mom’s body to identify and attack any pancreatic cancer cells that remain or try to grow back. The vaccine is composed of dead pancreatic cancer cell spliced with a mouse gene that the human body attacks. The logic behind the vaccine is that when her immune system to attacks this mutated pancreatic cancer cell that the immune system may then extrapolate to think that all pancreatic cancer cells are bad and thereafter kill them off too.