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Part Six: Treatment Day Two & Three | PRRT & Me

Making it through Day One with little to no side effects felt like a massive accomplishment. Neither my roomie or I suffered any ill effects from the amino acids drip prior to the PRRT treatment. Some patients do, some patients…

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Part Five: Treatment Day | PRRT & Me

My invitation letter requested that I check into the nuclear medicine ward on the fourth floor on Thursday at 9:30 am. I got there a little earlier so that I could find the finance office to pay my deposit on…

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Part Four: First Day in Basel | PRRT & Me

Our first night in Basel When we woke up from our naps, we head down to the Marketplatz. There are a couple of ways to get there. When you walk out the front door of Rochat, take a left and…

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Part Three: It’s Departure Day | PRRT & Me

My treatment day was scheduled for May 19th, so we were flying out the evening of the 16th, which just happened to be my Mom’s 70th birthday. This would give us an arrival in Basel mid-afternoon on Tuesday, so we…

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Part Two: I’m going to Basel – Now WHAT? | PRRT & Me

I got my acceptance on April 6th for a treatment date of May 19th, so I had about five weeks to pull it together. I was due for my Sando shot on the 8th of April, but, my oncologist deferred…

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Part One: Getting to Basel | PRRT & Me

As a NET Cancer patient for almost nine years, my decision to go to Basel was not a light decision. Cost was really the biggest barrier for me. But, the stark realization that I didn’t really need a 401k if…

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PRRT & Me (Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy and Dawn Marie)

  Greetings everyone, this is is the first post in a series that I will be blogging at about my PRRT experience in Basel, Switzerland. I am a nine-year pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer survivor and will be undergoing my first treatment…

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PRRT offers longer progression free survival

New results from the NETTER-1 study that compared Sandostatin LAR 60mg versus treatment with the novel peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) Lutathera have been made available. These findings, released at the 2015 European Cancer Congress, show that for patients living with…

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