Daniel's Epithelioid Sarcoma Cancer Research

After being diagnosed, it is has been impossible for me to stop searching for new solutions and treatment options for my cancer diagnosis. One places all their trust in the medical health system, and at times you feel more like a number than an actual human being. Oncologists are working around the clock everyday for treatment options, but the patient must submit to being a test subject. Every medicine I have tried has had astronimically low success rates, but I never gave up hope as they are truly the only option. I continue to run the numbers and try to make the best decisions on what my health options are and what I choose to put my body through. These treatments while they have the option to heal me, they also have very high rates of damaging the body and its vital organs. My next best hope to find a treatment option is to investment in private research labs and test different drugs options. I will be having a surgical operation to remove two nodules from my right forearm, and have them sent to a research lab known as Champions Oncology. From there they will take the tumor and attempt to graft it into a mouse, creating what is now as a  patient derived xenograft, or more simply, a mouse model. There is a 60% success rate for the tumor graft, and this would be the world's first ever Epithelioid Sarcoma mouse-model. After the news of a successful tumor graft, we will then be able to test different chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs and determine possible effectiveness to use against the very same cancer inside my body. When speaking with the researchers, they stated if they are able to create one mouse-model there is good hope of creating consecutive mouse-models with the same tumor sample. If that is the case, I will be donating one to a research team known as CC-tdi, a non profit organization specializing in childhood cancers and the only research lab in the United States doing active research on Epithelioid Sarcoma. I hope to be able to donate a mouse-model to this research team, in hope that they can do more extensive research into treatment options, in hope to help out the other people who also suffer from Epithelioid Sarcoma. The hardest part will be the mouse-model creation, with very little success rate. The surgery will cost close to $1,000 and the Mouse model creation will cost around $4,000. After a successful mouse creation, each chemotherapy drug costs about $4,000. The prices can become outrageous very quickly, especially since it is private research and there is no insurance coverage.  My hope is that we will be able to find a more effective treatment option, not just for myself but for all the cancer patients suffering from Epithelioid Sarcoma.