Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death I have incurable cancer. I want to live longer than my predicted life expectancy. (Currently) I have a 3% likelihood of being alive post 2025. So far, I have had four consultants (oncologists) in charge of my cancerContinue reading “Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine”
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Doctor, What About Immunotherapy?
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death As a cancer sufferer I am increasingly frustrated by the lack of availability (access) to any of the ground-breaking ‘new’ treatments that are widely published? Almost exclusively, such treatments, often clinical trials, are only available to those near toContinue reading “Doctor, What About Immunotherapy?”
Cutting Edge Radiotherapy
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death There have also been many advances in the field of radiotherapy, including new courses of radiotherapy, known as ‘hypofractionated radiotherapy’, delivering higher doses of radiotherapy in fewer sessions. I had (SABR) proton beam), radiotherapy to eliminate a small tumourContinue reading “Cutting Edge Radiotherapy”
Training The Immune System To Fight Cancer
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death The immune system is able to kill cells that are harming the body, including cancer cells. However, cancer can often turn off the body’s natural ‘anti-cancer immune responses’. One way in which our scientists are trying to defeat cancerContinue reading “Training The Immune System To Fight Cancer”
Delivering A Radioactive Payload Directly To Cancer Cells
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Research involving a new ‘search-and-destroy’ medicine known as PSMA therapy. The treatment acts like a guided missile, consisting of a radioactive particle that can be delivered directly to cancer cells. The treatment, sometimes known as Lutetium-177 PSMA, uses aContinue reading “Delivering A Radioactive Payload Directly To Cancer Cells”
What Could The Next Decade Bring?
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Prostate cancers can often grow too slowly to threaten a man’s life. For this reason, many men who have early disease and do not carry a mutation linked to cancer would normally just be watched closely by clinicians, asContinue reading “What Could The Next Decade Bring?”
Capitalism
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Its 80,000 BC You are Immortal. The world (the Earth) is Frozen in an Ice Age. You decide to save $10,000 every day, never spending a cent. 82,021 years later, Christmas 2021. You would still not have as muchContinue reading “Capitalism”
Checkpoint Immunotherapy
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Improving Cell Therapies by Characterizing Our Immune Arsenal Associate Professor of Innovation in UPenn’s Department of Bioengineering, Dr. Jiang seeks to characterize the incredibly diverse T cell repertoires in patients, which make up a crucial component of our immuneContinue reading “Checkpoint Immunotherapy”
Drums Over The Mersey
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death In 1985 Liverpool did a 36 hour Drumathon Concert – Drums Over the Mersey, the second such event, the first being a mere 24 Hours, in aid of Alderhey Children’s Hospital, 1983. Both concerts were organised by a localContinue reading “Drums Over The Mersey”
Two Tribes
Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. I hate football ‘International’ breaks. The suspension of Premier League fixtures for World Cup, European Championship qualifier fixtures. I especially hate breaks to accommodate international friendly’s, essentially pointless fixtures in order for FIFA, UEFA et. al. to make money.Continue reading “Two Tribes”
Dying to Live 