lady combating end-stage breast cancer receives 'miracle' remedy from city of Hope - KABC-tv

DUARTE, Calif. (KABC) --

a woman who has battled end-stage breast cancer for several years seems to be making a miracle restoration.

Susan younger's battle with the aggressive kind of breast melanoma caused malignant lesions to cover 70 percent of the sixty nine-12 months-historical's body.

"i was told that I had it, it was terminal and that i simply figured i was going to die with it. You recognize, with my body all ugly," younger spoke of.

She become diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. After ages, most treatments stopped working. four months ago, younger was out of options.

"There wasn't a good deal else that medicine may present her," observed vaccine researcher Dr. Don Diamond.

young became considering that hospice care, when city of Hope researchers had an epiphany: Why not mix a breast melanoma vaccine with the immunotherapy drug Keytruda?

Diamond explained cancer suppresses the immune gadget. The drug alone can wake it up, nonetheless it doesn't goal specific cancers.

"So that is the place our vaccine is available in. So our vaccine pursuits a cancer-selected protein known as p53," Diamond said.

or not it's a key participant in suppressing tumors. Diamond believes the remedy paired with the epidermis's pleasing immune defenses triggered a quick response. inside weeks, her lesions disappeared!

"Two doses later, I found the dermis changed into improving dramatically," oncologist Dr. Yuan Yuan observed.

"It appears like, as a minimum within the case of Susan young, we've struck gold," Diamond spoke of.

Tumors on her bones seemed to be shrinking, too. no matter if these advancements will proceed is unknown, however researchers are looking to test this therapy on extra breast melanoma sufferers whose disease has spread to the epidermis.

The hope is sooner or later it can also be used in other cancers. younger credited her comeback to a Christmas miracle.

"i'm feeling like i can now have fun with my grandkids," she mentioned.

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