Into My Second Treatment

After four years of my mantle cell lymphoma being undetectable, it was detected last month, in one lymph node, slow growing, in small amount. It should respond well to treatment that I began Thursday in a clinical trial using Temsirolimus with Rituxan. Those interested in more details can click here: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00109967?order=1

I feel no side effects either of the cancer or the treatment. My energy is great. I am counseling full time, more effectively than ever. I am at my prime.

This treatment represents the new targeted therapies flooding out of research labs. It’s as if the army developed a secret weapon that could disable an entire enemy army by identifying and eliminating one single enemy soldier – the one who pushes the button to wake all the others up.

I will go for four hours, one day per week for five months, to a hospital in nearby Aurora. It is part of a network coordinated by Mayo Clinic. I am patient #29. No overnight hospital inpatient stays.

We are also downsizing our living quarters. So, send buyers our way who could use a specialty house that can serve either as a home and office, or home with in-law apartment, or five-bedroom & four-bathroom home. We plan to move into a condo nearby in Wheaton, and use rented counseling office space.

So, please pray for the success of this treatment in again making my cancer undetectable, without troublesome side effects. And for a good sale of our home soon. And for continued positive impact for the kingdom of God by our counseling and teaching activities.

Dennis L. Gibson, Ph.D.
Dennis@DennisGibson.com
www.ACancerCoach.com