r/MadeMeSmile • u/seeyalaterdingdong • Jan 01 '25

Good News Science works

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u/FootSlappies Jan 01 '25

I hope that you have many more good years with your dad. Thanks for the additional good news!

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u/Lessllama Jan 01 '25 edited Jan 01 '25

Thank you. Age is catching up with him so I don't know how much longer I have but I am eternally grateful for this drug because it gave us so many more years than we would have had.

I'm so very excited to see this drug come on the market so other families can have what I did

Edit: the drug is so effective his brain tumor has only grown 1 millimeter in 6 years

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u/puppymonkeybabiez Jan 01 '25

Was his brain the original site of the cancer? Will this work on cancers that originate elsewhere and spread to the brain?

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u/Lessllama Jan 02 '25

He was diagnosed with leukemia and the brain cancer at the same time. He went through 3 rounds of chemo and radiation. Chemo completely put the leukemia into remission but neither treatment did a thing for the brain tumor. It's also inoperable due to its position