9th regimen dose = 7th dose for Woody (2pm Monday)

Woody's 7th IL-2 dose of this regimen was just completed.

He, again, had an eight hour period of next to no side effects--at least none of the bad immediate physical ones. Yeah!!!!!! We definitely are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It will only take one more dose to get him to the 20 doses (from the two regimens) that Dr. Sosman likes to see his patients reach. And, if he would have to stop after this one, it would be okay too.

Woody's creatinine levels continue to rise--even when he skips a dose, so he wants to get the treatments under his belt before they get to a point that he has to stop--and we definitely don't want to get to the level that he got to the last time. We want him to stop well below the level where he has to stop. The last time he stopped when they got to the level that the doctors stop the treatment--but his levels continued to rise for several days after he stopped--to the point that there was a scare of renal failure. He has enough problems without adding kidney failure!

I'll report later on how he does with this dose.