Somehow I forgot that that doctor that invented my chemotherapy regimen, who was baffled by my case, was the same doctor that treated Lance Armstrong's testicular cancer
en.m.wikipedia.org
“Dr. Lawrence Einhorn has been a giant in the field of oncology,” said Dr. Corey Langer, a professor of medicine at Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and an advisory panel member for the Giants of Cancer Care program. “He helped turn metastatic testicular cancer, a nearly...
cancer.iu.edu
To put into perspective how rough cisplatin is. I ended up doing megadose cisplatin at one point, too (my stem cell transplant was attached to that -- megadose cisplatin outright kills you without a stem cell transplant after):
"As a 32-year-old oncologist, Dr. Einhorn often was face-to-face with young men with this terminal disease. He dedicated himself to developing a better chemotherapy-based treatment, truly believing that it was incumbent upon him to improve the overall 5 percent survival rate.
"Within a year of his arrival at IU, he would test Cisplatin. The platinum-based drug had failed in a Phase I clinical trial with patients who had various end-stage cancers, including testis cancer. Cisplatin was found to be too toxic, causing severe vomiting, neuropathy, hearing loss and kidney damage in these patients, and it failed to stop the growth and spread of most of the cancers. But Dr. Einhorn was intrigued by the disease regression experienced by a very small number of testis cancer patients in the trial and developed a strategy to combine Cisplatin with two additional drugs that also were effective in killing testis cancer cells. His goal was to increase the likelihood of a longer remission in testis cancer patients."
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