The Hanover – Part 4

After a few days in Lancaster helping decorate I'm back in Germany for round four. Stuck my head out at Hanover to explore but with luggage seemed a bit daunting so stopped for lunch in Göttingen – much more manageable. Then caught the 155 bus to Duderstadt – go me on a bus! It was a gentle one hour journey through the forests and villages of Lower Saxony – my own private coach tour.

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.

So, 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!

This fourth treatment will also add 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

Since coming off chemo and having fought to get hold of some Dexamethasone my appetite went from zero to voracious and I gained back some 4 kilos to weigh in around 64kg.

So this week the fourth treatment schedule looks like this:

Wednesday 12-1 Hyperthermia + NDV + Zometa
Thursday 2-3 Hyperthermia + Zometa + Ozone
Thursday 2.30 DC Vaccine (nf-P2X₇₎ Plus Anti PD1)

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