He sought out medical advice right away, but it took three doctors to figure out what was wrong.
“There is, in my opinion, after much research, real hope for what is perhaps now the most difficult cancer in the human body to survive past a very limited window,” Colkitt said.
But the study sample was small, just over 30 patients, and U.S. clinical trials of similar vaccines have been less encouraging, he noted. Tumor vaccines for glioblastoma remain experimental, said Dr. Evanthia Galanis, an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic's Brain Tumor Program in Rochester, Minnesota. They're available in the U.S. as part of clinical trials, but haven't met the efficacy threshold necessary for wider availability, she added.
Progress in treating glioblastoma has been"very slow," with only one drug and one device approved in the U.S. in the last 15 years, Galanis said.Still, Russell, who plans to get the German vaccine in January, said he was excited and very hopeful about the treatment. Doctors think his tumors have been slow-growing so he’s been able to stay in relatively good health.
He and his wife, Samantha, have been open with their three children about his diagnosis, though they don’t call the disease “cancer,” and have emphasized they’re going to deal with it as a family. They've started a"What does it mean for your family? We all went golfing yesterday and went out to dinner. Tonight, we're going to do games and then tomorrow, we're going to do more," Russell said.
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