Purpose of this blog

My name is Cor and this is my story dealing with mucosal melanoma (MM) in my nose which was diagnosed on 10 Jan 2017. I am married and have 2 kids. I write and update this blog to reach out to all my loved ones far away with updates and my state of mind and also to share information with other patients.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Cancer and Corona

The immune system of cancer patients is the topic of many discussions nowadays. How will it react to Corona infection during and after immunotherapy? No clear answers except that there is a an increased risk of complications.

Cancer patients can’t get their regular treatments in Holland and are also cut off from the assurance of regular checkups. Lucky my last checkup 2 weeks ago in Tokyo continued as usual. Somehow Japanese react differently this pandemic.

I read that a Japanese flu medicine worked well in China and Japan to reduce the effects of the new Corona virus. It’s under trials now to validate it’s effect and to release if to all patients. This same medicine is used for regular flu jabs, and maybe the reason why there appears to be more resistance in Japan.

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