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Posted 2018-04-18T21:42:04Z

Welcome to Maryland |4-18-18|

Mike had his last dose of Nivolumab on March 6th. They had to stop giving him that drug because it was causing some problems with his liver. The doctors decided to go ahead and scan him to see what the cancer was doing. The results from that weren't what we wanted, so we had to wait and see if we could get into a clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. The doctors at KU basically told us that they're running out of options and we should try to see if we could do this trial. After a stressful wait, we got an appointment to get tested for their trial for a new therapy called CAR-T therapy. We flew out here and spent a couple days doing tests (scans, bloodwork, etc) and a couple days sightseeing in DC while we waited to find out if he got in. [...]