Sid Sijbrandij

Because of the shrinkage, it detached from the spinal cord, allowing a really talented surgeon to go in and go after it and remove most of it surgically, which wasn't possible before.

Yeah, so what we were able to do, because of the scar tissue, we had a binder for that called FAP, or this experimental treatment in Germany had that.

And you combine the binder with the radioactive stuff.

So a lot of drugs, you just give them to the entire body.

Yeah.

A standard chemo drug.

It's devastating.

This drug is also like a really nasty thing.

Like Lutetium is like radiating you from the inside.

I was like 10 times as radioactive as an airplane at altitude from the outside, let alone what was happening inside of me.

Oh, wow.

They have to like, they keep you in isolation because you can't be around people.

You can't be around people.

But because it was on this FAP binder, it targeted my tumor especially.

And there's also a little bit of risk for like, for example, your loss of taste and smell, but I had non-side effects there.

So it was very specifically bound to the tumor tissue, which is just amazing.

Like most cancer treatments are way worse.

and uh yeah enabling surgery uh was a was a big deal like if it's right up against the dura your spinal cord that's not great but in this case it was uh detached from there because yeah it was really great how long were you really radioactive

You're really active for kind of a week, but only two days in isolation.

And then you get a letter and then you walk at the airport.