More Brain Mets - New Plan Thoughts?

[CourtneyL]

Hello lovely ladies and gentlemen - I've been quiet on the boards lately because things have been going really well and I've been trying to push back cancer to the far corners of my mind. Well it just pushed back.

My latest brain MRI shows 8 new lesions. Crap, crap, crap. Will it ever end? So I guess we know that the super charged t-cells from the vaccine are not robust enough to go in and take care of any activity in the brain. Let's hope they're working below the neck to keep everything else at bay. My last PET/CT in August showed bone-only disease so that is a blessing.

But now, what to do about the brain? Here's what the plan is and then I would like the collective brain mets trust on this board to chime in with any thoughts/ideas/suggestions/feedback. Your opinions are invaluable to me and saved me from WBR almost two years ago - for which I will always be grateful.

Plan is to Gamma Knife all 8 lesions, hopefully in the next week or so. I started back on Tykerb today as we know it is thought to cross the blood brain barrier and I had much success on it last time. Then, after Gamma, my onc wants to add in Temodar (pill form of chemo also known to cross the BBB). There may be a chance that I can still continue on the clinical trial and receive my last two vaccine injections in November and January, respectively.

Thoughts? Is this a good plan? Do you think I should be doing something else? Is it time for WBR?

Love and healing light to you all.