Live from MD Anderson....it's Wednesday's Results

Just met with the doctor and the scans show that Carrie's tumor has another 4% growth for a total of 8% since she started the trial in September. 8% is still lower than 20% so we are scheduled to start round 3 this afternoon. On the upper side of things we were told that Carrie could take a week off if she wanted to, just to get a break from having to travel and getting treatment. The doctor said that it would only push the treatment back one week but would not effect her results. So now we are looking forward to taking a vacation sometime in the near future. Carrie's cholesterol appears to have leveled out and is back to normal but will continue taking medicine for it. White blood count is back up to where it is supposed to be. Her thyroid stimulating hormone is high (aka Hypothyroidism) so they are prescribing her medicine for that.

We asked how the trial was going in general and the doctor said that he had 6 patients that were all in the stable state (less than 20%), one of which has been on the trial since March 2010. The doctor said once they have 5 more patients join this trial, then they can look towards sending the data and results from the trial to some medical board (who exactly, I don't know). Then, they can look towards possibly starting Phase II of this trial, which potentially means other hospitals may be able to start administering this treatment (and hopefully UAB would be one of them!!). The doctor did, however, say that it would probably be at least 8 to 10 months until the got those 5 additional patients and could send the data in. But we're optimistic!! :)

And finally, I would like to say WAR EAGLE to our guys for winning the national championship. I am not a huge fan of Facebook but it was nice to celebrate with friends through it since no one in Houston Texas cared who won. We cannot wait to get back to Auburn and celebrate the right way even if we are a few days behind. We will be driving back to Auburn tomorrow and Carrie will be in town through Tuesday.