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David is getting treatment at Northwestern Hospital, NWH, with Dr. Aparna Kalyan and her team. His metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma qualifies him for a clinical research study--a 5-drug combination. These are:
-5-Fluorouracil
-Bevacizumab
-Leucovorin
-Oxaliplatin
-nab-Paclitaxel
These will be administered in 28-day cycles followed by assessments. There are a lot of details about how and when David gets these drugs. There is more info about this clinical trial at
http://www.ClinicalTrials.gov. Here is the Sponsor/Study Title:
Celgene Corporation/ "An open-label, multicenter, sungle-arm, Phase 1/2 study of metronomic 5-fluorouracil in combination with nab-paclitaxel, bevacizumab, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma."
We will keep you posted.