{"id":4421,"date":"2013-04-08T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:01:54","slug":"last-chemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Last Chemo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130408-140728.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130408-140728.jpg\" alt=\"20130408-140728.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;\"><\/a>For better or for worse, I have decided to stop systemic chemotherapy and last friday was my last cycle.<\/p>\n<p>I have known since day one that chemo was a dead end. For the majority of cancer patients, chemo does not lead to a cure. Chemo destroys everything including healthy cells and wrecks havoc with the immune system. I am no longer prepared to do that to myself.<\/p>\n<p>My decision is also in part due to the fact that neither the first line folfox, or second line folfiri chemotherapies worked well enough to reduce my tumour load. Officially I have achieved stable disease for the last 6 months, however most of my liver mets grew by a few millimetres. Its not even certain whether chemo had anything to do with this slowdown in growth.<\/p>\n<p>I realise that I am taking a huge risk in light of my extensive liver mets, but I have to try something different. I believe that the only path to a potential cure lies with my immune system, and that is the path I have decided to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I am off to Germany to explore a range of alternate and off-label therapies. Its expensive as heath insurance will not cover it,  however many of these treatments are simply not available in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>My Germany based treatment plan includes:<\/p>\n<p>Chemoembolization of the Liver<br \/>\nDendritic Cell Therapy<br \/>\nNDV oncovirus<br \/>\nRemovab antibody for my epCAM positive cancer<br \/>\nHyperthermia<br \/>\nThyroid based therapy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For better or for worse, I have decided to stop systemic chemotherapy and last friday was my last cycle. I have known since day one that chemo was a dead end. For the majority of cancer patients, chemo does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}