no words here…just hope…
I read in the TB Daily News they are going to start him on chemo. Anyone know anymore about that?
No further information as of yet if it went off without any problems; one session down, now five to go
Lost in the Fog has his first chemotherapy treatment
By CHUCK DYBDAL
Daily Racing Form, September 8, 2006
Lost in the Fog, the 2005 Eclipse sprint champion, had his first of six planned chemotherapy treatments at the University of California at Davis on Thursday.
The 4-year-old colt was diagnosed with cancer last month.
If he showed no adverse reaction to the treatment Thursday afternoon, he was to be returned to his stall at Golden Gate Fields on Friday, according to Dr. Gary Magdesian, who is handling the colt’s treatment.
Lost in the Fog had previously undergone steroid treatment that failed to shrink the three tumors discovered in him last month.
Magdesian said that Lost in the Fog’s blood work would be monitored closely between treatments as would his bone marrow. Lost in the Fog’s chemotherapy sessions will be spaced three weeks apart.
TY!!!
yes, thank you!! still jingling like mad and candles are lit
In case no one has posted this yet, here’s the report from UCDavis on Foggy’s first chemotherapy:
Lost in the Fog Gets Chemotherapy
He received Adriamycin and may have other drugs added later. I was sort of surprised by the choice of Adriamycin (but, then, I know nothing about chemo for horses). It is used for breast cancer and is pretty harsh, sometimes called “the red devil” because it’s bright red.
I’m jingling that it knocks out those cancer cells without causing Foggy too much discomfort.
I’m off to light some candles. For those who mentioned this earlier, Janelle got evicted from Big Brother house, so Barbaro is back to number 1 and Foggy is number 2 on the candle site. Foggy has over 900 candles. We can get it to over 1000 this weekend if we try.
9-10-06
Lost in the Fog back at Golden Gate
Champion sprinter LOST IN THE FOG (Lost Soldier) returned to his stall at Golden Gate Fields on Friday, one day after undergoing his first chemotherapy treatment at the University of California at Davis, and was resting on Saturday.
“I think it (the chemotherapy) affected him a little bit,” trainer Greg Gilchrist said Saturday, “but he’s eating and he’s drinking. He seems a little tired, but that’s to be expected. I think he’ll snap out of it.”
Gilchrist said that Lost in the Fog’s next chemotherapy session will occur “September 27 or September 28.”
The dark bay four-year-old was diagnosed with three cancerous tumors in August. After steroid treatment failed to shrink the tumors, the course of chemotherapy began in hopes that it would send his cancer into remission. A total of six sessions are planned, one every three weeks.
Gilchrist expressed gratitude for the tremendous support that he, owner Harry J. Aleo and Lost in the Fog have received.
Spoilsport: Adriamycin is the drug we use first and most when aggressivley treating lymphoma in dogs. I am a LT. Vet tech and work for Board Certified Specialist. Sometimes we follow it up with Vincristine .
I would assume that the protocal is very similar in equines
Silly question, but I have to ask
Adriamycin is the “red devil”… responsible for the hair loss. Does it affect horses and dogs in the same manner? Do they also lose hair? Just curious… I never thought of this before.
Going to light some candles for Foggy and Bobby.
Sorry it took me a day to respond , the answer is no horses , dogs and cats generaly do not suffer the hair loss people do. Sometimes it does cause them to get random grey hairs. Radiation also almost always causes greying in that area it was directed
Does anyone have the address of the stable where Lost in the Fog lives? I would like to send him some treats and a card. Thank you.
I think he is at Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
By chance would anyone know what became of the documentary effort conducted in 2005 and presumably into 2006 on Harry and Lost In the Fog? Some of the few citations of the would-be film:
[From September 2005]HOLD YOUR HORSES: Noe Valley filmmaker John Corey is “in progress” on a feature-length documentary about our resident icon, 85-year-old Harry Aleo. Proprietor of Twin Peaks Properties, lifetime board member of the Noe Valley Merchants Association, avowed conservative Republican in this valley where there are few, Aleo is also owner of the horseracing world’s current rage: Lost in the Fog. The 3-year-old colt has won all eight of his starts, many in record-breaking fashion.
Corey, who is an Emmy Award*winning producer for TV Channel 5’s Evening Magazine, says he is trying to finish the documentary in time for the film festivals next spring, but “every month the story becomes more interesting and the plot thickens… I’m on my way to Saratoga racecourse in upstate New York for the Grade 1 King’s Bishop Stakes [on Aug. 27]. I’ll have to go to the Belmont racetrack in late October for the Grade 1 Breeders Cup races, with the big purses. These fall races could be very interesting, so hopefully the film will be done by the end of this year.”
Aleo’s thoroughbred has quite a following, he says. “In the beginning of August, I was up at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, where Lost in the Fog was making an appearance–not to race, but for a workout only. He was being ridden between the races by jockey Russell Baze, and people told me that the crowd was almost double what it normally would have been–and this was for a workout!”
And what of Lost in the Fog’s? His story is being written right now – most literally by people like [Andy] Beyer and John Corey, a former producer for KPIX’s Evening Magazine who’s now shooting a documentary about the horse (“It’s a wild story,” Corey says. “There are so many interesting elements – a bizarre kind of destiny”), but also by the people in Lost in the Fog’s orbit, the 50-some folks joining Aleo in the winner’s circle these days.
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Does anyone have the address of the stable where Lost in the Fog lives? I would like to send him some treats and a card. Thank you.[/QUOTE]
Assuming the official address of the track [thats where he’s stabled now] would work to get any delivery there …
Greg Gilchrist & Lost In the Fog
c/o Golden Gate Fields
1100 Eastshore Highway
Berkeley, CA 94710
or
Harry J. Aleo
Twin Peaks Properties
4072 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94114
Photo: May 2005, Lost In the Fog w/ Russ Baze getting a leg up also trainer Greg Gilchrist helping him, Harry in the cowboy hat, and an unidentified groom. Shot at Golden Gate Fields.
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I’m almost afraid to ask, but here goes. Do you know how successful it is in dogs? It seems that lymphoma is often curable in humans. It’s sad that they are giving Foggy such bad odds.
Jingling, jingling, jingling.
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Spoilsport: Its hard to say. Depending on how early its caught and the sevarity of its spread. I would say that 50% or slightly better of the animals we treat for lymphoma atleast go into remission how long they remain or how long to relapse varys. Remission is really what we consider cured…they never can be considered out of the woods like any cancer it can come back. Ive seen some dogs live 2 weeks after first discovery and some live seveal years and die of old age before the cancer got them. Dogs get seveal kinds of lymphoma and Im not sure if horses are the same.
Most of our dogs once considered in remission remain on some kind of prednisone treatment to prevent return. We wean them off very slowly
A good sign is that his chest is still clear…any mets(cancer) to the lungs is a bad thing.
Im going to ask my Dr what she knows about lymphoma in horses tomorrow
As posted on The Barbaro Recovery, (from Alex):
Update 645: I just had a brief conversation with Greg Gilchrist to get an update on Lost in the Fog. It has been six days since his chemotherapy treatment, which I think knocked him back a little (as one can only imagine). Anyway, Greg said he had walked this morning, was having a nice bath as we spoke and would then be taken out for a pick of grass. I did not push for his assessment for how the Fog was doing, I was more interested in his routine. I will call back in about a week to get a further update. It is the first time I have spoken to Greg, he just seems a very decent guy.
Thanks VB! More candles lit for Bobby and Foggy.
The suggestion from this article is that so far LITF is taking the treatment somewhat in stride, btw its nice to see this publication (with Cleveland not exactly an equine hub) doing an article on him:
Cleveland Plain Dailer 9-15-06 “A grueling race for survival”
“He received his first one last Thursday and will need at least six more rounds of chemo,” said Dr. Gary Magdesian, a member of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at University of California at Davis.
Spaced three weeks apart, the treatments are intended to reduce the size of the tumors. They will continue until early next year, but Magdesian isn’t making any promises that Lost in the Fog will make it through the chemotherapy.
“I can’t give it to you in odds, but this is a long shot,” said Magdesian. “One of the tumors is inside his spleen and is the size of football. One of the other two tumors is also quite large.”
After receiving his chemo at UC Davis, Lost in the Fog returned to Golden Gate Field where he has been the prince of speed for 2½ years. While the races went on as scheduled Wednesday, Lost in the Fog was doing anything but battling the after-effects of his treatment.
“No, horses are much more tolerable of the chemo,” said Magdesian. “The side-effects aren’t the same. They can handle.”
