{"id":7173,"date":"2017-01-23T11:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:38:46","slug":"testing-the-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/testing-the-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>When Deb Crites was told she could enroll in a trial that would not only shorten the course of her radiation but also help assess a possible treatment change for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/services\/womens-care\/breast-health-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breast cancer<\/a>\u00a0patients nationwide, she didn\u2019t bat an eye.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7176\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7176\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb.webp\" alt=\"Deb Crites attends physical therapy at the Wellness Place at UCHealth Cancer Center in Fort Collins a few weeks after getting a shorter course of radiation therapy, made available to her through a clinical trial. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb.webp 1436w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb-300x209.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb-1024x713.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb-768x535.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb-150x104.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/28144450\/EXT_radiation-trial_breast-cancer_deb-200x139.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deb Crites attends physical therapy at the Wellness Place at UCHealth Cancer Center in Fort Collins a few weeks after getting a shorter course of radiation therapy, made available to her through a clinical trial. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have to think about it,\u201d Crites said. \u201cSomeone did this for me, so if I can pay it forward, I\u2019m happy to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Crites was diagnosed with ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast \u2014 the most common type of breast cancer. She was treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation and hormonal therapies. Part of her treatment included use of a drug called Perjeta, which has shown in earlier trials to increase cure rates, according to her oncologist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/michael-d-stone-md-internal-medicine-medical-oncology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Michael Stone\u00a0<\/a>of UCHealth Greeley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeb was able to receive the best available therapy only because of clinical trials that have been done in the past,\u201d Stone said. \u201cIt is crucial that we continue to have trials available to our patients both for potentially their own benefit as well as to advance the field of\u00a0cancer care\u00a0as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clinical trial Crites enrolled in will determine whether a much shorter course of\u00a0radiation therapy\u00a0is effective for node-positive breast cancer. Currently, the typical course of radiation for these patients is 25 to 33 daily treatments, lasting a few minutes each weekday over a period of five or six weeks. The radiation course in the trial, called hypofractionated radiation therapy, is 15 to 19 daily treatments over three to four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference of a couple weeks can mean the world to many patients who are undergoing daily radiation treatments,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/joshua-h-petit-md-radiation-oncology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Josh Petit<\/a>, radiation oncologist at\u00a0UCHealth Cancer Center\u00a0in Fort Collins. \u201cIf this approach is proven successful through this trial, it could change the way node-positive patients are treated throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hypofractionated radiation therapy already is the standard of care for node-negative breast cancer patients, and also is used in the treatment of other cancers, such as specific prostate cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Along with helping others, the trial and its shorter period of treatment appealed to Crites because of her profession. She and her husband are farmers along the Colorado-Kansas border, a three-hour drive from the UCHealth Cancer Center. The clinical trial allowed her to get back to the family farm \u2014 and corn harvest \u2014 in a shorter period of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d leave home early every Monday morning, stay with my daughter and her family in Loveland Monday through Friday while I had my treatment at the Cancer Center in Fort Collins. Then Friday, I\u2019d head back home again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After her four-week radiation course, her doctors arranged her follow-up visits so that Crites can receive chemo treatment in Greeley before heading that same day to Fort Collins where she meets with Petit for a follow-up and then to the\u00a0UCHealth Wellness Place\u00a0at the Cancer Center for physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has been so fantastic to work with,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are so caring and so good at what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCHealth\u2019s Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs and University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora also are enrolling patients for the trial. This is the first investigator-initiated clinical trial, funded by University of Colorado Cancer Center, to be made available to patients across the UCHealth system. CU Cancer Center is the only comprehensive cancer center in the state, as designated by the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this is the first of many clinical trials we are able to open across the UCHealth system,\u201d said Dr. Karyn Goodman, associate director of clinical research for CU Cancer Center. \u201cThis is a major step toward expanding access to oncology trials, and we hope to continue to bring these leading-edge treatment options to Coloradans outside of the Denver metro area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Deb Crites was told she could enroll in a trial that would not only shorten the course of her radiation but also help assess a possible treatment change for\u00a0breast cancer\u00a0patients nationwide, she didn\u2019t bat an eye. \u201cI didn\u2019t have to think about it,\u201d Crites said. \u201cSomeone did this for me, so if I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2164,"featured_media":7176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[655,6835,28,48,49,64,167,191],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovative-care","tag-breast-cancer","tag-breast-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-care-oncology","tag-cancer-center","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-wellness","tag-clinical-trials","tag-radiation-oncology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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