Today, a good buddy of mine, Todd came to pick me up at Mom's and we went down to the ballgame at Comerica Park in Detroit. It was a great game with us winning 9-4. We also had a chance to grab a bite in Greektown and take a ride on the People Mover.
Downtown Detroit seems in better shape than what I remember before I left 5 or so years ago. We also got a chance to go down to the site of the old Tiger Stadium where they're in the process of tearing it down. It's surreal seing the old ballpark (or whatever's left of it) in shambles... I have so many fond memories of going down there with my Dad when I was a kid then as a teenager with friends. Todd and I actually managed to talk the security guards into giving us a couple of bashed up seatbacks for memorabilia. I'll miss that old place...
As far as the stupid cancer thing goes, I have a PET scan scheduled for June 25th and a follow up appt. with my new Onc. on July 8th. If everything goes according to plan, it looks like I'll be staying in Detroit to do the every 21 day trial of SGN-35. My doctor called and told me the data from the weekly trial is almost exactly the same as the data from the every 3 week trial so it's a no brainer. While the complete remission % are somewhat low, the overall response rate (or those that showed reductions in tumors in in the 80% range so I think that's pretty good. I'm not going to pay attention to the stats however as I know how far that's got me so far... I'm just going to hope and pray that this drug will keep my disease under control for as long as possible and that those who are doing the Phase 1 trial for second application of the drug show good second responses. This will mean that SGN-35 might be a viable Hodgkins maintenance drug in the future. We're talking 2011 probably at the earliest so it's still a ways off and there are so many more steps and data that needs to be accrued. With that said, I sure hope there are other emerging targeted anitbody therapies being developed as this seems like the future of cancer treatment. It's a chemo that only kills cancer cells and not your good cells (like I've had so many destroyed already). I'll post information as I receive it. By the way, for anyone interested in this stuff, here's the trial data up to this point: http://www.seagen.com/clinical/35trialsf.htm
So tomorrow my Sis and I plan to go out to breakfast with Dad and come back and hang out with Dad#2 Rich. Should be a nice day!
1 comment:
Good for you getting out there and living life......show that cancer what's what!
Keep doing what you're doing Chris...........Vx
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