for those with brain mets running out of options

[Lani]

I have previously written about the unusual approach of Dr. Irene Wapnir of Stanford against her2+ brain mets.

She has published that her2+breast cancer brain mets often have an additional feature called a sodium-iodine symporter. This is something that is apparently simple to test for on a biopsy of a brain met.

When present, it opens up the opportunity to try to treat the brain met(s) with a simple, safe, already FDA approved (against thyroid cancer) treatment consisting of radioactive iodine as I understand it.

They have to temporarily suppress your own thyroid glands secretion for a short time to make it work and that is totally reversible.

I was recently able to discover who best to contact about this possibility and as so many here recently have been plagued by brain mets with fewer and fewer additional options I thought it best to post again on this possibility.

Marilyn Florero, Breast Surgery, 650 724 1953. Email: florerom@stanford.edu