Wednesday 4 June 2014

Where are we now

Staying with Jack in uber cool Potsdamer Platza, Berlin following fifth DC treatment in Duderstadt.

Dr Nessulhut again added the Anti PD1 and also the nf-P2X7 has been altered on Julian Barden's recommendation so we hope to see results over the next three weeks.

OK so the first (iv) injection of nf-P2X7 was in the mouth as Dr Nessulhut said that in mouse studies the effect was remarkable in impacting lung metatasis. The second half of the DC cells are injected subcutaneously in the arm as usual.

He also discussed the use of IV GcMAF which has helped other patients to increase macrophages.

Feeling tired and appetite is lower but how much of that is stress and how much disease is hard to separate. Insomnia is a common symptom in cancer apparently.


Exciting news – Duderstadt held a classic car show in the main street this weekend. Check me out checking out the 1970 3.5 280SE convertible... here's a youtube on how to hot wire it!

So:

Another quick recap below for those looking for information on the treatments to save reading through older posts:

Diagnosed with stage 4 stomach/esophageal cancer in July 2013 and offered 'palliative' treatment in Australia – a round of radiation with chemo to shrink the tumour and stop the bleeding followed by three rounds of non-stop chemotherapy with Xeloda over 60 odd days – by the middle of the third course my hands and feet were extremely 'ouchy' and shedding skin and I had all the energy of a 55 year old bloke who'd been on 60 non-stop days of chemotherapy.

Thanks to the shared experience of Simon and Kate McRae and their discovery of Biosceptre's work and the brilliant Doctors Neßelhut I abandoned chemo and shuffled off to Duderstadt in Lower Saxony, Germany to embark on a course of immunotherapy with dendritic cells – particularly those primed to target a 'non-functioning' receptor 'nf-P2X7' identified by Julian Barden at Biosceptre.

Put simply, all cells carry the P2X7 receptor which tell the cell when and how to 'die' when its time is up. Cancer cells however have a non-functioning version of this receptor. Bioscepter have identified this and created a treatment which allows cells to reactivate the receptor and cause cancer cell death. Brilliant! and it appears this may well be a generic cancer treatment rather than being specific to a cancer type – to date Biosceptre have identified the marker on more than 20 cancer types. Even more brilliant!

The  treatment has also added Anti PD1 - a seemingly effective treatment to help attack the main tumour.

Additionally, Dr Neßelhut and his wonderful team use a combination of approaches to help control and eradicate the cancer cells. These include localised hyperthermia (Oncotherm – also now available in Sydney) combined with Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) (also not yet available in Sydney) our normal cells can pretty well shrug off NDV but cancer cells are weakened or killed by the virus.

They also add Ozone and Zometa treatments all of which have little if any side effects. To date I have had a slight cold which may be from the NDV or may well just have been be a slight cold.

Other prescribed medications are:
Metformin 1000mg x 2 times per day
Cimetidin 400mg 2 x per day
Q-10 x 2 cap 
Vitamin D3 x 5 drops
Coriolus Mushroom x 2 capsues twice per day

If anyone wants any other information feel free to get in touch.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Adam, you look well in the latest photo - great to see the colour in your cheeks. Probably the change in scenery and activity is doing you good. That's a lesson for us all. xxxTom

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