Gary, I might be wrong, but my doctors are continuing on with the study. I think it was pulled for not being effective on lung cancer patients. They are still looking to see if it's effective on head and neck cancer patients.

Believe me, when someone told me it was pulled and they took me temporarily off the drug, I did breath a sigh of relief. After I healed up from the neck dissection, I literally got weepy when they prescribed it for me again (and again, I had some horrible side effects from it)

I don't take detailed notes (outside of my daily blog over on the Live Journal area) but the radiation oncologist brought in the doctor that heads the study to take a look at the blisters all over my face. They mentioned some head and neck cancer study that has been going on with Iressa in Chicago where the two year survival rate was 90% (I could be wrong with the percentage, but that's what sticks in my mind)

While I am most certainly not a cheerleader for this drug, I'm continuing to take it, I guess, as some sort of preventative measure against recurrence. Having been through both radiation and chemo as well as surgery, it just seems like one more weapon to add to the mix.

I've definitely been the poster child this year for Iressa side effects. You name it, I've experienced it or am still experiencing it.

Jen