Brian

Thanks for the newest study link, My seed tick studies cites were older. while he was good about the ticks, I wished my RO had explained that Erbitux would not kill my cancer tumor. I had it as my only chemo along with the radiation. Hindsight is always better so I wish I had carboplatin with the Erbitux.
Again, I believe that they will discover a similar mechanism to the KRAS gene effect upon Erbitux that they have found for colon cancer, i.e., Erbitux just does not inhibit the growth of head and neck cancer cells nor slow down their growth and replication if the patient has a certain type of gene variation. As you know, it is now required to test colon cancer patients for KRAS gene variation before using Erbitux. Currently there is zero requirement to test for anything (tick antibodies, gene variations, etc) before giving Erbitux to oral cancer patients.
The Erbitux did do a fantastic job of stopping my face and neck skin from growing back from the radiation damage. I should have been suspicious when I never had the acne rash.
But I should not complain since while worthless for me, Erbitux was not fatal.
Charm