I have stage 4 medullary thyroid cancer and started receiving one of the drugs (Retevmo) about two weeks after it was approved by the FDA.
It has absolutely saved my life, it is everything I prayed for, and it is hard to comprehend how fortunate I am to have access to this medicine, that this treatment has literally no side effects, and to be alive at this time in history.
I have no doubt I'd be dead if my disease progressed 5 or 10 years earlier when there was no good treatment available for MTC. (My first chemo was failing right when Retevmo was approved)
It's not a cure, and I don't know how long it will last before my cancer outsmarts the drug, but it is so reassuring there is such rapid research and breakthroughs being made.
It has absolutely saved my life, it is everything I prayed for, and it is hard to comprehend how fortunate I am to have access to this medicine, that this treatment has literally no side effects, and to be alive at this time in history.
I have no doubt I'd be dead if my disease progressed 5 or 10 years earlier when there was no good treatment available for MTC. (My first chemo was failing right when Retevmo was approved)
It's not a cure, and I don't know how long it will last before my cancer outsmarts the drug, but it is so reassuring there is such rapid research and breakthroughs being made.