COMPLETE REMISSION!!!!!! (Update provided 8 months later)
Our new pet outside our hotel room Update: We are thankful to our medical team , our complete remission lasted 6 months. We are continuing treatment with Doctors Kleef, Williams and Rosenberg. Please refer to updated blogs! We are in disbelief. Four months ago, I broke the news to Layla about the scan results showing that the cancer was now in her liver with too many lesions to count. It was a miserable day with lots of tears and pain. Layla looked at me and asked: "Does anybody ever come back from mets in liver?, I am not ready to die!". The odds are super slim. While we were all trying to come to terms with the new escalated level of the disease, Nina was already looking at all the options that she knew of and what was the best way to turn this nightmare into a blessing in disguise. With the metastatic disease now in her liver, Layla became a candidate for the OX40 Intra-Tumoral injection (Stanford Study) but needed treatment to shrink the extent of the lesions