I tend to be proactive and would prefer not to wait for my doctors, so I sent the following questions to my doctors at Hopkins, Kaiser, and NIH:
1. What would you recommend my next steps to be?
2.
Does it make sense to do a biopsy of the left supraclavicular lymph
node? If so, should that be a JHUH, Kaiser, or NIH?
3. What is the best type of genetic testing that can be done on the tissue to inform the next therapy?
4.
Should I go back on nivolumab immediately (either through the clincial trial or, since it's been approved, outside of the trial protocol), or await testing,
or consider a different therapy such as Dr. Apolo's cabo/nivo/ipi
trial?
It looks like I'll have a period of uncertainty ahead.
Ken, sorry to hear this news. I wish you all the best in whatever course of treatment you follow. Your blog has helped me so much with my wife's BC journey, so many thanks. God bless you and your family. Marty.
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