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Hey guys,
As you all know if you are brought to this site unfortunately your family has received heartbreaking information about your pet. I have been using this website for a little over a month and I cannot say how amazing it has been. My Great Dane, Dior was diagnosed with OSA in early April and we have since had amputation and round 1 of Chemo. I have decided to enter Dior into a clinical trial at U PENN but have been questioning my choice. I have recently heard of a new clinical trial and have been debating on seeing if i can switch. My dane just turned 4 and I have really been trying to see what options might work best for us. Does anyone have any information on these studies or other studies?
My current trial:
http://www.vet......teosarcoma
Trial I have been looking into:]
I don't have any specific information on either, but clicking through the links made me remember that I had seen something about rapamycin recently. Here is an article about it:
Active 10+ Pyr mix suddenly came up lame with ACL tear in left rear leg. Scheduled for a TPLO but final pre-op x-rays indicated a small suspicious area, possibly OSA, which could have caused the ACL tear. Surgeon opened the knee for TPLO but found soft bone. Biopsy came back positive for OSA. Became a Tripawd 9/18/14. Carbo6 with Cerenia and Fluids. Pain free and living in the moment. Crossed the Bridge on 7/12/15 after probable spread of cancer to her cervical spine. A whole lifetime of memories squeezed into 10 months. Here's her story: Eloise
Wow if you're in Dr. Mason's study for the HER-2 vaccine I would stick with it. See my post about her amazing work, scroll down to "Novel Therapies"
http://tripawds.....kthroughs/
The Her2/neu vaccine study showed an astonishing median survival rate of 956 days for 18 dogs with osteosarcoma. Yes, that’s a 956 day average survival rate!
When I attended this discussion about the HER-2 trial, I was thrilled to hear Dr. Ehrhart of CSU say: “This is the first time I’ve had this much hope,” in the last 20 years of trying to treat osteosarcoma.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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I am actually in the other study but have recently stumbled upon Dr. Mason's clinical trial but do not know the ethics in switching trials if we not not received any actual vaccine yet.
Ohhh got it. I would talk to them, it can't hurt and they will totally understand.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
tripawds.com | tripawds.org | bemoredog.net | triday.pet
Bandit started on K9 Immunity last week. He thinks it is a treat! Deb and Bandit
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