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Another update...
My wife had a follow up MRI of her brain yesterday. First was on 15/1 (day after grand mal seizure and discovery of brain mets), the second on 7/2 (after 3 more seizures and they gave her days to live after all tumors had grown and WBRT had apparently failed).
The onc called it "miraculous" last week and "spectacular" this week that my wife managed to recover from the situation she was in on 7/2 (and basically make it to the appointment). Even yesterday he sighed when he reviewed that old scan. BUT on the latest scan some tumors have significantly decreased, there are no new tumors and most of the edema is gone. There is some bleeding but mostly due to melanoma tumors (apparently a tricky kind of tumor vs other cancers - with loads of veins) bursting due to inflammation.
So it seems that the re-challenge of BRAF/MEK (after only 2 months of drug holiday) worked or that finally Pembro is starting to kick in. Either way, we'll take this result.. Zoya had her 5th Pembro infusion yesterday and she'll have a full body PET CT in 3 weeks. Followed by either the 6th Pembro or possible a short switch to Ipi (hadden we overgeslagen).
It's early days, but I think our situation indeed gives 1. more evidence to the 'drug holiday' idea (typically 3 months+ but in our case only 2 months), 2. supports that brain mets can be treated with BRAF/MEK and/or PD1 not just with radiation and 3. that BRAF/MEK and immunotherapy could be combined with success and so far with zero side effects. Our onc did want to reduce the MEK dose as apparently there are some studies (had jij niets hierover gelezen Ben?) on PD1 and BRAF but MEK apparently is more tricky.
Will keep you posted.
Rick