Kjacoby

Hello! Thank you for your response. He is being seen by a melanoma specialist, Dr. Monte Shaheen at the UNM Cancer Center. He indicated that the immunotherapies are not always effective in crossing the blood /brain barrier, so he wouldn't start any until he could measure if it were working or not. I was pretty surprised, but the way my family sees it is why put him through the side effects if he is healthy now, save the big meds for when he has active disease I guess. I wish I knew what was right! Or if there were cancer cells in there somewhere waiting to pounce. It seems that two months is too long between scans with such an aggressive disease, but maybe that's just me wanting to know. 

Hello! Thank you for your response. He is being seen by a melanoma specialist, Dr. Monte Shaheen at the UNM Cancer Center. He indicated that the immunotherapies are not always effective in crossing the blood /brain barrier, so he wouldn't start any until he could measure if it were working or not. I was pretty surprised, but the way my family sees it is why put him through the side effects if he is healthy now, save the big meds for when he has active disease I guess. I wish I knew what was right! Or if there were cancer cells in there somewhere waiting to pounce. It seems that two months is too long between scans with such an aggressive disease, but maybe that's just me wanting to know. 

Hello! Thank you for your response. He is being seen by a melanoma specialist, Dr. Monte Shaheen at the UNM Cancer Center. He indicated that the immunotherapies are not always effective in crossing the blood /brain barrier, so he wouldn't start any until he could measure if it were working or not. I was pretty surprised, but the way my family sees it is why put him through the side effects if he is healthy now, save the big meds for when he has active disease I guess. I wish I knew what was right! Or if there were cancer cells in there somewhere waiting to pounce. It seems that two months is too long between scans with such an aggressive disease, but maybe that's just me wanting to know.