My husband is currently on Herceptin for his esophageal cancer along with another chemo drug. His tumors have the HER2 markers so the Stanford doctors recommended this. This is his second round of chemo. The first round he had four strong treatments of chemo, then surgery to remove the cancer and remake the esophagus from using his stomach. Because of the scare tissue afterwords he had 6 dilations because his throat kept closing up. Then a stent was placed in his throat and it was removed because scare tissue was growing over it! During the course of this when it was removed his vocal folds went into spasms and are now paralyzed shut! He now has a trach. We were then sent to Stanford and they found within the scare tissue cancer was growing and had spread to lymphs and against his spine. This has been very frustrating for us as he still can’t even swallow water!!
So far we have not heard of Keytruda or has he used it.