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Katie Krize

Katrina LeeAnn Krize
May 25, 1994 - August 1, 2008

Welcome to Katie's Web Page. It has been provided to keep people updated about Katie's fight against neuroblastoma. Mom and Dad are Mike and Michele Krize, and little sister is Erika Krize.


Katie was diagnosed with Stage IV Neuroblastoma on October 1, 1999. Katie went through five rounds of chemo then surgery to remove her tumor and infected lymph nodes. Her bone marrow and bones were completely cleared of cancer cells after three rounds of chemo. She had a stem cell harvest in January 2000 and gave 14.7 million cells. Katie finished getting local radiation to the tumor bed and two vertebrae on March 1, 2000. On March 21, 2000, Katie was admitted to Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina for her stem cell transplant. She was discharged on April 17, 2000. She also completed six rounds of accutane and has been officially finished with treatment since December 2000.

On March 10, 2006, Katie was diagnosed as having relapsed neuroblastoma. We are in the fight again! From March 2006 until August 2006, Katie had 7 rounds of the topless cyclone - topotecan/cytoxan. We believe she was once again NED (with no evidence of disease). In October, three new spots showed upon her legs, but we were starting a new chemo anyway - ABT-751. Katie took 6 rounds of that chemo (experimental, at the NIH in Bethesda, MD), then progressed again with cancerous lymph nodes in her neck and armpit and new lesions on her skull in February 2007. She started oral irinotecan and temodar in February 2007.

Katie progressed again in July 2007 with new tumors in her left upper arm and her skull. She finished MIBG therapy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in August 2007, but six weeks after MIBG therapy, Katie progressed again with three new tumors on her skull, and extensive disease in her pelvis. Three rounds of ifosfamide and etopiside helped a lot, but then Katie progressed again in December 2007 with a large tumor on her skull. In January 2008, Katie enrolled in a Phase II Clinical Trial in Vermont of nifurtimox - topotecan - cytoxan - zometa. For six months, this treatment held off her disease, but on July 12, 2008, it was discovered that the neuroblastoma had spread to her brain. Katie became an angel on August 1, 2008.

Journal

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:55 PM CST

NEW WEBSITE...

SCROLL DOWN, CLICK ON THE ONLY LINK LISTED BELOW.

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As of today, this site will not be updated any longer. We are switching to the wonderful new caringbridge format. The website address has only SLIGHTLY changed.

Old address (this site): www.caringbridge.org/sc/katiekrize

New address (new site):
www.caringbridge.org/visit/katiekrize

This change will allow us to add more pictures, have more links, have more backgrounds to choose from, and best of all..will AUTOMATICALLY send you an e-mail that the site has been updated.

All you have to do is go to the site, click on the box that says you want to be automatically updated and follow the procedures OR sign the guestbook and you will automatically get the automatic notification. Cool, huh?

There is a link below to take you right to the new site. This one will remain active, and we will check it, but please try to remember to add your guestbook message to the NEW site. THANKS!

Love, Michele

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Hospital Information:

Patient Room: 7

Ronald McDonald House
16 S. Winooski Ave.
Burlington, VT 05401

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http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/katiekrize   Katie's new website as of 1/15/08
  
  


 
 

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