Indian-Origin Woman Given Months To Live Now Cancer-Free After Drug Trial In UK
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She underwent 6 months of chemotherapy and a mastectomy in 2018, followed by 15 cycles of radiotherapy which cleared her body of cancer. Then in 2019 the cancer returned, and scans.
An Indian-origin woman who was given just months to live a few years ago is celebrating on Monday after doctors say she is showing no evidence of breast cancer following a clinical trial at a UK hospital.
Jasmin David, 51, from Fallowfield in Manchester is now looking forward to celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary in September after the successful National Health Service (NHS) trial.
Ms David's two-year trial at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at Christie NHS Foundation Trust involved an experimental medicine combined with Atezolizumab, an immunotherapy drug administered intravenously which she continues to have every three weeks.
"I was 15 months down the line after my initial cancer treatment and had almost forgotten about it, but then the cancer returned," recalls Ms David.