2008 Year in Review Continued ...Melanoma

The University of California, San Francisco
School of Pharmacy

"•The National Cancer Institute awarded a $5 million grant to UCSF’s School of Pharmacy’s Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine to investigate how genomic information and pharmacogenomics can best be translated into clinical practice. The grant is the first major NCI funding to focus on health policy issues relating to drugs that are geared to individual genetic differences, often referred to as “personalized medicine.” Many doctors are not yet aware of tests to see if targeted drugs will work for particular patients, or how best to use them."

It is call Molecular Profiling, I tried back on:

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
10/25/2006 Major Set Back!!!!!

Yesterday while at the Rochester Oncologist (Dr. Pandya) office we received bad news. The cancer is spreading in my lungs quite rapidly according to the CT scans. There are now over 40 nodules ranging from 15 mm down to < 5 mm. No wonder I been having shortness of breath. I thought it was my lack of exercise. Dr. Pandya gives my prognosis a poor rating. I guess I won’t be getting a raise this year.

I have started the long term disability process with disbelief. My fight is not over for a long shot. I just need to speed up my trials to find the right one. I will be contacting Dr. Kirkwood today to see where we stand on the Molecular Profiling route. I feel I am in the race of life and second place is not an option. I am going for the Gold.

Stay tune things may get very interesting.

Take care

Jimmy B.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
This is the first step forward!!!!

An email from Arlet Alarcon to Kirkwood



Hello Dr. Kirkwood,

Please call me at your earliest convenience at any of the numbers below, so that we can discuss how to best help Mr. Jim Breitfeller.

Thank you,

Arlet

Arlet Alarcon, M.D.
Manager, Target Now/Horizon
Molecular Profiling Institute (MP)
445 N. 5th Street, 3rd Floor
Phoenix, AZ. 85004
(602) 358-8982 (direct)
(602) 358-8920 (fax)
(602) 909-7667 (cellular)
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Molecular Profiling Institute



Jimmy B

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
10/17/2006 The Molecular Profiling Institute Called Yeh!!!!!!

I just received a call from Dr. Arlet Alarcon from the Molecular Profiling Institute. She is the clinical coordinator at the Institute. She gave me some background on what they do and how it would pertain to my situation.
Here the Deal: They would take a biopsy of my tumor and run a genomic sequence on it to determine the pathways that the tumor is using to nourish itself with the blood supply using the supercomputer. Once they determine the pathways, they try to figure out what chemotherapy or drugs would shut down the pathways choking off the blood supply to the tumors. The tumors would slowly die. Easier said than done.

It sounds like Science Fiction.

All I need is to get buy in from Dr. Kirkwood.

Luke Skywalker Here I come!!!!!!!!

Jimmy B. Signing off
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At that time, Dr. Kirkwood was just tring to stabilize me.
I saw the potential but it was in is infancy. I was too ahead the times.


THAT WAS IN 2006!!

That was three years ago!!


TALK ABOUT BEING AHEAD OF YOUR TIME!!!

As you see HOMEWORK IS EVERYTHING!!!!!

Jimmy B.