My husband was prescribed Erbitux, but research brought me to Nimotuzumab. It sounds much gentler. No rash.

We go to the Tampa FL Veterans hospital and my research also found:

Curing Cancer Takes Heart - or Heart Hormones, Maybe
"The world of medical research is taking growing notice of Vesely's discoveries, made in a maze of small, crowded labs at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. The widowed father of five, whose wife died of breast cancer in 2002, has big, seemingly impossible hopes that four hormones manufactured by the heart may one day save millions of lives."


Husband 79 metastatic cancer neck lymph nodes, biopsy Moffitt showed base of tongue, tonsil & vallecula. VA in Tampa - Teeth out 6/16, Radiation 5X7 and Erbitux 7/13 Carboplatin 8/4 - Amifostine added 8/6