RE: Immune-boosting drugs3 Jun 2024 10:10
Ponsonb, excellent post and in the last few weeks, and featuring largely in the Conservative General Election Manifesto has been the progress made during their term in government, in immunotherapies and new treatments, especially in early detection. How amazing that the guy mentioned in this article has been treated since 2011 on this drug , having stage 3 Lung Cancer , and is still alive today.
Thank you to many of you for your kind response to my first post for some considerable time last week.
In answer to Ruck Rover in particular, my own journey from being prognosed with a year from lung cancer, also stage 3 began in late 2013. Having such a complex range of chronic conditions I was not offered surgery or chemotherapy, but began with Sabre Radiation six months after diagnosis. it took months of scans to establish the tumour had shrunk considerably, far exceeding the year I was given, returning slowly over a period of time where I was treated with a concoction of steroid base treatments. Again it worked to a large extent, leaving behind just cancer particles yet to form into a tumour. By 2018 it had returned with a vengeance where i agreed to have cryoblation. Not the hot treatment but the ice cold one. It was the first invasive treatment i was allowed, never allowed even a biopsy, boy did it hurt, allowed only a local anaesthetic it took 4 hours , where 4 enormous needles were pierced through the layer of membranes covering the lung deep apart from our skin surface. The bruising took a couple of years to clear enough for the scans to show it had been successful.
The last scan appointment I attended was September 2022, where apart from a few particles present, they were delighted with the treatment. I wasn"t elated, simply by definition I was still alive so I knew it would be positive. To this day I have not returned to UCLH simply because of ill health due to the progressive terminal conditions of my Respiratory tract, heart failure, COPD and emphesemia. So no Ruck I do not have any new experiences of treatments available now. I have a new scan appointment on June 11th, which I do not feel up to going again, and by definition once again I am still alive so I will presume it might just well be ok, if it is not then there are no treatments left for me anyway, so it is enough for me to say I have lived for 11 years since my original prognosis.
As a few of you asked and noted, I will not be buying back in, I stretched my finances considerably building that 250k holding largely as I bought in at 41p, and i sold last year where my average was 15.1p losing just about £5k in total. I am not buying back in as I am now a pensioner, 67 years young, and have just enough to live comfortably whether it be for a day or an unlikely ten years. Saying that it is a high risk investment still which I no longer need to venture in to.
On saying that the SP looks inviting enough, pinned down by the new directors share options. There have been numero