Diane Pathieu's husband is sharing his brain cancer story and how methylation profiling technology helped him survive his toughest battle yet.
Just days before Christmas in 2020, my otherwise healthy, fit, vivacious husband collapsed on the floor of our home from a massive seizure.
He never had any symptoms. Soon he was bleeding from the brain and needed emergency surgery. Afterwards he was frail, paralyzed on his right side, and developed a MRSA infection.Nick regained use of this right side, and then went through chemo and radiation. That's when he was told he had just over a year to live.
"In Nick's case, he had a lot of exciting things from a genetic perspective, one of them was the presence of something called the FGFR TAC3 fusion," Dr. Lukas said. "This for us is exciting because it has potential target, so there are drugs available which we can use." Northwestern Medicine is one of only a half dozen institutes across the country doing this type of testing routinely, and the only one in Illinois.
There are some rough side effects, including the loss of finger and toe nails, mouth sores, and more, but Nick says it's worth all of that.
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