Fatima is in a complete remission of bone and liver metastatic breast cancer with dendritic cell therapy and hyperthermia in addition to hormone therapy. Article updated November 3, 2009
November 3, 2009: Here's the background story of Fatima Galamba. Last weeke let me know that she is still doing well with her. Last scan in October 2009 again gave a totally clean image and nothing indicates a return of cancer. So beautiful.
Spring 2004 as Fatima goes to visit her family in Portugal, she lived in Marbella itself for years in Spain, leave them out a routine scan as three years before a few cysts surgically removed from her lungs. Fatima feels great, works full time and do not think that something serious might be going. Even a phone call from the hospital if she would like to come alarmed her. The message that breast cancer is detected is then hard. Fatima in Portugal is a celebrity, she is an artist and painted walls, houses, chapels. She is as she says proudly it a pretty attractive woman. The prospect of having to miss a breast scare her off at first. But Fatima is practically set and realize if they want to survive they will have to accept what the doctors its proposals.
It is operated on her chest where the cancer is. Then she gets a local / regional radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy. The doctors are optimistic and tell her that everything will be fine. Fatima does everything himself, despite the treatments still possible to live normally. She buys a wig because she quickly became bald from chemotherapy and remains as good as going to work during chemotherapy. May 2005, the treatments are ready and she gets a further hormone treatment with Arimidex.
A half years doing well in spring 2007 but she feels increasingly tired and also gets pain in her lower back. At first she thinks is, well I work too hard, I have a bit forced, but a painter commissioned in May 2007 by a scan detected a recurrence of bone metastases. Also on the liver are suspicious spots to see. The oncologist suggests a change of hormone treatment in Femara plus additional Zometa to combat bone loss. But the oncologist said that there are at Fatima can not cure and treatments are palliative, pain-relieving given. No sooner said than done. Spring 2008 but the pain is too much and seem far there are 5 vertebrae affected and some are on break. The radiation oncologist proposes to Fatima but her sisters were now together emt further integration runs to search for any other treatments. That did not go really positive, but whether it was being read as they visited the hospital in Portugal in May 2008 an article in a magazine about Dr. Robert Gorter and his permanent approach with dendritic cell therapy and hyperthermia . This speaks to Fatima, she makes an appointment in July 2008 and she starts with this approach. The moment she starts, she has a lot of pain by botuitzaaiingen but after two weeks hyperthermia, it gets the local electromagnetic hyperthermia of the first two weeks three times a week because they can not always travel back to Spain, the pain disappears and never comes back.
Fatiam gets in the course of 2008 and 2009, six times a treatment with dendritic cells in combination with hyperthermia and additional infusions of immune-stimulating substances and natural light dose of a particular chemotherapy, Endoxan. Of the chemo, it observes nothing. She remains pulse Femara Zometa use. Whole body hyperthermia, also known as fever therapy, which is given 1x per month, always prior to insertion of the dendritic cells as they feel heavy. But a good friend who lives n Germany helps and supports her, her sister and sometimes a few times come along.
Fatima is going to feel better and better, and between visits to Cologne she has continued working and has no further burden from her bones. She fits her lifestyle. She takes her faster and longer rest between working on. She ate too much red meat once (her boyfriend is an Argentine and likes red meat) but now only occasionally eats chicken or turkey and fish. And eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
A scan in February 2009 is amazingly good. All the cancer seems to be gone and the spots on the bones are healing. Her tumor markers have returned to normal. Fatima in February 2009 after 2 more times to Cologne in August 2009 and a scan shows that she has been a total remission. There is no cancer activity to be seen on the PET scan. Her tumor values and remain within normal range.
Fatima has never in her oncologists in Spain and Portugal told her treatments with Dr. Gorter in Cologne. She is afraid they will not be helped. The oncologists have been amazed by her fast recovery. An oncologist recently said to her, Fatima tell me honestly what do you do? Because how you recover, we do not normally in women with metastatic breast cancer. Fatima but dared not openly tell. Now with this video, she wants it to come out. Dr. Gorter is still a blow to the arm in breast cancer because you surely 3 years clinical cancer have to say that the overall remission will be permanent, but he is optimistic: Actually we've never had someone with breast cancer as they dendritic cell therapy in a total remission has been given a relapse. In fact, it's all her own immune system. So the chances of Fatima still get a recurrence is small. Fatima is also optimistic. I'm better, she says, beaming.
