My husband Mike recently under went ACT with IL2 treatment at Moffitt Cancer Center. The Tumor Infiiltrating Lymphocytes were infused followed by 8 infusions of IL2. He experienced some side effects – kidney function damaged, delirium, rash, edema, rigor, etc. It has been 2 weeks now and he gets better each day. He was diagnosed stage 4 recurrent metastatic with internal and some subcuteaneous tumors. The ones we could see are gone so we are hopeful the 6 week scan will show the internal ones are reduced, dead or gone also.
My husband Mike recently under went ACT with IL2 treatment at Moffitt Cancer Center. The Tumor Infiiltrating Lymphocytes were infused followed by 8 infusions of IL2. He experienced some side effects – kidney function damaged, delirium, rash, edema, rigor, etc. It has been 2 weeks now and he gets better each day. He was diagnosed stage 4 recurrent metastatic with internal and some subcuteaneous tumors. The ones we could see are gone so we are hopeful the 6 week scan will show the internal ones are reduced, dead or gone also. One strange thing, rather than blurry vision, his vision has improved to where he sees better without his glasses now. Onc, said he had some patients who said the same thing after surgery but not after IL2. Anyone ever heard of IMPROVED vision? He had to get glasses for the first time in Jan. about the same time he learned that he had recurrent melanoma (1st time was 2000 treated with excision and interferon). Wonder if the cancer was the cause back in Jan. and if tumor shrinkage now sent vision back to what it was before. No mets on brain MRI. just wondered if anyone had heard of this "side effect" before?
