My Comments to Yours
This posting has no particular subject other than to respond to a couple of comments, all of which I read with great interest and occasionally with a few tears. As always, I will try to share what I have learned, at least from a patient's perspective.
Some of you wanted to know if RIT can be used again. To my knowledge, the answer is yes. I know of one person in particular who was in an early clinical trial in the mid-90's and was re-treated two years ago.
Currently, RIT has been approved by the FDA for patients who have been previously treated with chemotherapy and who have relapsed. Some clinical trials, such as the one in which Mort enrolled, have used it as an initial therapy and the results have been quite promising. I look forward to the day that RIT is approved as a front line therapy so that patients will never have to know chemo's side effects. Research is ongoing toward that goal.
Betsy