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Steve Janzen holds his youngest granddaughter, Zoey Janzen, during a special auction Sept. 13, which raised more than $12,000 for his cancer treatment in Dallas, Texas. Janzen, who is battling metastatic pancreatic cancer, begins clinical trials next Monday at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In about four months, family and friends raised almost $48,000, exceeding the goal of $40,000 to help with travel, food and lodging and treatment not covered by insurance.
Support continues for Janzen fight against cancer threat BY
PATTY DECKER
The Free Press
For almost four months donations have been pouring in to help Steve Janzen of Florence in his battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Phoebe, Steve’s wife, said the goal was to raise $40,000, which will be used to pay expenses not covered by insurance for an experimental treatment. On Monday, Phoebe said they just got word that Steve was accepted into the clinical trials. “We will leave Monday and won’t return (from Dallas) until Oct. 14, and after that will be going back every two weeks,” she said. Prior to being accepted into the clinical trials, Phoebe explained they both went to the University of Texas Southwestern Med-
ical Center in Dallas to meet with their doctor. “Steve went through several blood tests and other tests to determine if he was suitable for the clinical trial on pancreatic cancer,” she said. Initially, the Janzens thought they would be going back to Texas in the latter part of September, but that was moved back because of the chemotherapy through the clinical trial. “The clinical trial is an experimental use of a new cancer drug,” she said, “and it is used on cancer patients willing to participate. “The other things that have been happening is the avatar mice that were inflicted with Steve’s Cancer cells, and those cells grew and now the mice can be used to test drugs specific to Steve’s cancer.”
The procedure Jeannie Wilden, a family friend, who has been spearheading the fundraising, explained the type of procedure Steve is going through. “Genome analysis is usually an analysis of between 120-250 genes to identify gene mutations,” she said. “A basic report with possible clinical trials identified is provided, and Steve did have that analysis done by two companies.” He also had “whole exome analysis,” Wildin said, which analyzes 20,000 genes. “That company also provided all of the raw data to Dr. Terence Tan, and his team of scientists, to go to work identifying possible clinical trials.” Biopsy material was sent to Champions Oncology in Hoboken, N.J., to be grafted into an avatar mouse, she explained. “The tumor has shown n See Janzen, Page 10A
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13 classes represented in Old Settlers Day parade In the Old Settlers Day parade competition among class floats, the sophomore class (top photo) took first place with its theme, “Caution! Heroes at Work,” depicting firefighters, nurses and other emergency personnel saving lives. Taking a cue from their upper classmen, the freshmen students also honored EMTs, the fire department and other emergency response units (lower photo) at Saturday’s parade. In the open category, Marion FFA took first place, St. Luke Hospital second, and the Cub Scout Pack 102 was third. According to Casey Case, one of the organizers, the Kiwanis Club also started something new this year by donating $100 toward the park project for the class reunion float that showed the most spirit. This year, that award went to the Class of 1964. Case said classes represented this year included 1934, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004. “It was a great day for everyone,” he said.
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