Saw this story on BBC news thought it might help the reviews this guy gave one the drug is really great having an option to chemotherapy and radiation is perfect for cancer patients. If you are one of those battling cancer maybe you can do some research on it.
Peter's journey
"I feel a bit of a fraud having terminal cancer because I haven't been in pain at all," says Peter Waite, 64, from Hertfordshire.
"There's been nothing negative about it for me and I feel a bit embarrassed really."
Peter started receiving combined immunotherapy (nivolumab and ipilimumab) in a clinical trial in early 2015 after doctors discovered he had a type of renal cancer several years after recovering from kidney and lung cancer.
He was told he probably had three to five years left.
Instead of being treated with chemotherapy, he spent four months receiving both immunotherapy drugs and experienced virtually no side effects, allowing him to continue working as a motor technician throughout his treatment.
Scans of his kidney and lungs show that one of his tumours has shrunk and two others have not shown any further growth.
He is no longer taking the drugs and is being monitored every 12 weeks with scans.
Mr Waite said his daughters have teased him about being a guinea pig - and considered buying him some hay.
"I'm a very upbeat sort of bloke and I've been very lucky," he says.
"I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to go on the trial.
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