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Rolepaul · 02-13-2015, 04:39 PM

Same device. The drug will make it to the tumor areas. IT is just convincing doctors to try. Steroids are very important as the Herceptin activates the white blood cells to go after the cancer cells. TDM-1 systemically will penetrate the BBB at maybe 5% of what is in the systemic, but that might be enough to slow things down.

02-13-2015, 04:39 PM	#11
Rolepaul Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Boulder Colorado as of January 2013 Posts: 389	Re: TDM1 for HER2+ brain mets reocurrence? Same device. The drug will make it to the tumor areas. IT is just convincing doctors to try. Steroids are very important as the Herceptin activates the white blood cells to go after the cancer cells. TDM-1 systemically will penetrate the BBB at maybe 5% of what is in the systemic, but that might be enough to slow things down.