SPINAL FLUID METS

I am looking for options that can help with:

SPINAL FLUID METASTASES

If there are cancer cells in the spinal fluid and there is no brain tumor....(removed just before Christmas),treatment will usually consist of a total dose of 2400 cGy,Radiotheraphy (which I can no longer have as full dose given in Jan 2010.) [Intrathecal drug administration into the spinal fluid seems to be a possibility. An Ommaya reservoir or a ventricular access device may be used to delivery the drug into a ventricle. This is called intraventricular delivery. The drug then circulates from the ventricle throughout the spinal fluid.] chemotherapy. Just finding chemo's that can enter the protective membrane of the brain and fluid that have had some positive effect. And of course finding an Oncologist willling to do it.


xxx leigh