Is there anyone that doesn't believe that DCVax-L or Direct won't work in combination with this, or other therapies under development.
It's my belief that if the SOC for a given cancer cured 95% of patients with the cancer there would still be research on how to cure the 5%. Certainly it wouldn't be heavily funded, but people would still be working on it. Frankly, the more we're able to learn about cancer and other diseases, the more personalized treatment will become. In the above example, the ideal treatment would identify the 5% who didn't see benefits from the treatment that cured 95%, and treat them in a different manner.
It's now been nearly 6 years since my diagnosis with PH+ ALL. Before my treatment began with chemo it was halted for a few hours. Why? Because the final results of the testing they were doing showed that their initial evaluation of my disease as AML was wrong, it had taken roughly a week for the final results to come in. The course of treatment was quite different for the 2 different diseases.
I believe our technology is rapidly improving. The testing that took over a week a half dozen years ago will probably be done in a few hours in the future. This may not be the case if cultures must be grown before a determination can be made. During my treatment on two occasions I had catheter infections, each case took several days to determine the precise infection. In both cases, the antibiotic they initiated treatment with helped, but something with greater efficacy was used when the specifics of the infection were known.
Gary
