Its official, Warren will be starting another study next week. This week we have to go back Thursday for a CAT scan and a PET scan. On Tuesday he'll get a chest x-ray, EKG and blood work prior to a clinic visit and then he'll be admitted to the hospital for several days (not really given a number yet) to start chemo and for research blood work to be done (many drawings of blood at specified times). The new drug is really two drugs given together 5-fluoro-2'-deocycytidine (FdCyd) and tetrahydrouridine (THU). The second drug acts to raise the level of the first drug in the blood stream (or that's my understanding of what was said today). We'll go 5 days a week (looks like Tuesday-Saturday) for 2 weeks and then have 2 weeks off. The drugs will be given by IV infusion lasting 3 hours each day. The 4 weeks equals one drug cycle. He will remain in the study it looks like at least two cycles. They expect that the tumors should have shrunk by half in that time. I hope they're right. This is going to be tiring for both of us.
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