sue123's Cancer Blog
July 7, 2007
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I have been reading up on the product ‘Avemar’. All the information I have found has a lot of encouraging news on helping to fight cancers and more.
I have never been into alternative’s before, but after all my days (lately) of researching this product I am wondering if I should have been.
I have finally decided to give it a try.
Here is some information on Avemar, if interested.
http://www.avemar.com.au/avemar_research.ews
08.16.08 - 
Thanks for your support -
This Avemar sounds interesting. I will do some research on it. To answer your question on my blog. Doing the clinical trial doesn’t mean that I will never do chemo again. Right now I don’t choose to anymore. I have had a total of 16 months of chemo (4mo,6mo,6mo)and 3 surgeries in the past 2 years. I didn’t want to do anymore.
I really suffered through chemo. It was not a life worth living. I had a lot of problems. With The Erbitux I had a bad reaction and they couldn’t give me that anymore, I couldn’t function on Xeloda and got off it, a tumor grew while I was taking Avastin. It worked great the first chemo protocol it quit working on the 2nd. I was cancer free for a short time after surgeries but it never lasted and I was just tired of being sick and tired and decided not to do anymore.
I found out about this vaccine trial. The word vaccine is a little misleading in that it is not just 1 shot and you are done. It is a series of 4 shots given over 4 days for 3 months. Scans are taken every 3 months for 2 years. If this trial is approved, once people have surgery to remove colon cancer tumors on the colon and liver they will be able to get these injections instead of chemo.
If at some point I decide to have more surgeries or chemo I will have to drop out of the trial. I don’t intend on having either but I have learned to never say never.
I thought you had to have a clean scan to be approved for the trial but that was not the case because I still have tumors in my lung and my liver. The trial vaccine works by boosting the patients own immune system and targeting and killing cells with CEA attached. My doctor tells me all cancer cells have cea attached to them.
For more info on this trial you can go to:
http://www.cancer.gov/search/ViewClinicalTrials.aspx?cdrid=410791&version=patient&protocolsearchid=3422267
Talk to you soon. Stay Stong.
Donna
Hi Donna—I surely know what your talking about. Been there-done that. That’s why I am trying the Avemar (it makes your immune system strong also!). I tried to find a clinical trial in Michigan for the vaccine, but couldnt find one. I’d like to try that as well!
Keep strong—good luck!
Sue
Hope all goes will for you.
Love Sherri