My last brush with cancer was via a beloved pet Lab I had treated, he did very well, happy as a clam until the day he died of unrelated causes.
During the course of going down to NC State, etc. for treatment, I had many conversations with both veterinary oncologists as well as other people having their pets treated.
The reason I mention this, is that there was at that time an extensive trial going on for a melanoma vaccine that apparently was proving not just effective for melanoma in dogs, but also for “off label” use with other cancers.
Veterinary trials in dogs are where just about every human cancer treatment we have began. Dogs and humans are affected by cancers very similarly, and respond to treatments very similarly as well.
I would inquire about this melanoma vaccine, if I were to find myself in such a position. This was in 2007.
A major problem with cancer is there are so many different kinds;and we use only one word to describe it.
A word like Polio describes well a problem some of us humans have had to cope with, and a vaccine for polio will work on just about everyone because it is a specific problem. there are not dozens of diferent types of Polios like ther are dozens of different types of cancers.
Cancers are many types and the best cure would be to get the person's immune system to go after the cancer cells and rid them from the body. So far that hasn't happened.
So we are into elaborate treatment and no real cures for the many cancers we face.
There a thousands of cancer patients who would be willing to try these new treatments. Many of them have, and are doing it daily, but there are no real solutions yet.I am sure some, as a last resort, have tried drugs that seemed to have worked on dogs. -tom