A glimmer of hope

Good news...finally. I received verbal authorization today that my insurance company will cover one of the drugs that is currently being trialled for Recurrent Cervical Cancer. Although it is still on trial, and not proven for Cervical, this drug has proven to be very successful in controlling the spread of disease in other cancers such as Colorectal and Breast. Now I am just waiting for Dr. Shah to schedule me to start. It may still be a couple of weeks because it is a very expensive drug, so it has to be special ordered and written authorization from the insurance company must be received before the pharmacy will order it. The drug name is Avastin. This is similar to the drug that is being trialled at SKM in NYC. This is the type of drug Dr. Shah was wanting me to trial. Now I can receive it here in Orlando under her supervision. This makes me much happier. It's too bad it took this long to figure this out though, because I have spent weeks calling the different trial sites trying to get in to one. At least I am that much more knowledgeable now regarding the different types of cancer fighting agents that exist and feel good about this choice.