Hi Colleen-
Thanks…I’ll try those links.
To your questions:
I’m not sure if she is a candidate or not…we suspect she is too old at 79 years(?)…
My thoughts r that in view of the Her2 mutation in her cancer, perhaps Mayo would be interested in her as a candidate, in spite of her age?
She was placed on “chemo holiday by Mayo this past April, due to hospitalization for blood clot and double pneumonia in early March.
After scan in early September, she was given two cycles of Carboplatin/Opdivo “cocktail” to which she had horrible side effects including a hospitalization…another scan indicated the cancer was still growing…so they now have her on Enhertu “cocktail”, which they tell us has proven success for Her2 NSCLC patients.
The concern with this new therapy is risk of potentially fatal toxicity caused from the trastuzumab (Herceptin). Especially since she had lots of scarring caused by it from her My Pathways trial that she had been on for 4 1/2 years prior to the event in March.
So there u have it. My thought is her lungs are severely scarred at this juncture.