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Post by sleepyjohn on Sept 6, 2019 11:47:01 GMT
Day7, slight improvement only!
Maybe I'll pass next time??
Won't have any numbers to show progress for another 10days.
Ah well,onwards and upwards.........
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Post by sleepyjohn on Sept 30, 2019 17:14:49 GMT
Second dose last Friday,still not recovered from the first!!
Scores are not showing much change so far,but no worse.
Fun this!! ( but many much worse than me,so I reserve judgement and press on)
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Post by sleepyjohn on Oct 17, 2019 9:34:15 GMT
Well,I'm pleased to report that after two doses of radioactive radium,the scores are starting to move in the right direction.I'll even manage another month without needing a blood transfusion.
Looks like this fairly new treatment for advanced prostate cancer could be available at more centres soon, as the practitioner nurse who runs it at my centre,is in great demand to go training others.
At present it is imported from Norway,but there are plans for somewhere in the UK to start manufacturing,once there is sufficient demand.
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Post by thistledome on Oct 18, 2019 19:08:09 GMT
I also hope that will materalise Dave, and it's not then out priced for use on the NHS.
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Post by sleepyjohn on Oct 19, 2019 9:55:58 GMT
I also hope that will materalise Dave, and it's not then out priced for use on the NHS. Currently costs around 2K. a pop...(every 4 weeks for 6 cycles) That's quite competitive to regular chemotherapy, and almost the same cost as my previous treatments,but the saving is in staff costs to administer it,ie 15 mins every month,rather than being in all day every , for chemo. The pharmacy firm that manufacturer it work in Norway and Canada,and supply the whole world from there. The science behind it is very clever,but also so simple,fooling the tumours into absorbing radioactive radium instead of calcium. There are possibilities of similar approaches for other diseases,but for every one that works,there are dozens that don't,hence the high development cost. |
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