'We celebrate our wins,' said Kenny Keown. 'I've been blessed through this process,' he said of a Baylor Scott & White Health clinical trial.
"We celebrate our wins," said Kenny Keown."I've been blessed through this process," he said of a Baylor Scott & White Health clinical trial.ARLINGTON, Texas — An Arlington retiree, fearing he'd been given a likely death sentence, happened to seek medical treatment at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas. It was a serendipitous choice. BS&W doctors, conducting a clinical trial specifically for his type of cancer, were looking for someone just like him.
Actually overdoing it wasn't really the problem. Because back home in Dallas, his doctor told him the pain in his chest was esophageal cancer. They were studying if, when treating esophageal cancer just like Kenny's, whether the patient could benefit from immunotherapy and chemotherapy and radiation, all delivered before a surgical procedure to remove an esophageal or gastroesophageal cancerous tumor. The second advance was tracking something called circulating tumor DNA, a blood test that would determine how much, if any, of that old tumor was still in Kenny's blood.
"We celebrate our wins," Keown said."I've been blessed through this process. This may sound corny, but it was like a warm hug. All of a sudden, I had hope!"
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