Immunotherapy & Kidney Cancer
My husband was diagnosed last year around August with kidney cancer. The following month he had a nephrectomy and was diagnosed with RCC stage 3, grade 3. We then decided to seek a second opinion at MD. Anderson for future treatments. They recommended immunotherapy(keytruda). My husband decided to do it because it was something his 2 oncologists recommended due to the aggressiveness of the cancer. Now, seeing my husband continue to develop tumors and more growth despite being on immunotherapy has me thinking. He is already on his 3rd line of treatment within a period of 9 months. Could it be that it was the immunotherapy that caused him to develop more tumors and more cancer growth? He was fine the first 3 months of not having any immunotherapy after his surgery then he decided to do keytruda and out of nowhere he had developed a tumor in the psoas muscle and also lung nodules. He is now stage 4. Just last week he started Cabo and Nivo. I have seen him deteriorate lately, his thyroid is fried, and he also has adrenal insufficiency. He regrets doing Keytruda then Ipi and Nivo. Maybe we should have waited before starting immunotherapy. I am just so disappointed and saddened in everything. In life, in everything :(