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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman with brain cancer survived for NINE years after being given a tetanus shot
When Sandra Hilburn was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2006, she was told she only had up to three months to live.
Nine years - and five grandchildren - later, the 68-year-old retiree from New Jersey is still going strong, and all thanks to an experimental treatment involving a common vaccine.
Hillburn, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, was one of 12 cancer patients who were given a tetanus shot as part of a new study conducted at the Duke University Medical Center.
Researchers found that a dose of tetanus vaccine let patients like Hillburn live longer when added to an experimental treatment for the most common and deadly kind of brain tumor,
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990255/Study-Tetanus-shot-aid-treatment-deadly-brain-cancer.html#ixzz3UB6B7yid
Orrex
(63,216 posts)K/R!
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)It sounds so promising!
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)It was amazing and heartening.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)I wish this was used on my son, who died in 1999 of the same type of tumour she has He died 18 months after his diagnosis at 26 years old.
malaise
(269,067 posts)I can't imagine the pain you experienced losing a son at any age let alone at that lovely age for a young man
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)It is going on 16 years but it seems like yesterday .. His dad died of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 18 months after our son. My husband was 54. I look forward to a cure for all.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)snacker
(3,619 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
laureloak
(2,055 posts)using the patient's white blood cells that had been exposed to a virus called CMV,found in glioblastoma cells but not in healthy brain tissue.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/experimental-cancer-therapy-extends-womans-life-by-9-years/
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)How exciting, how wonderful to have real hope of getting to where cancer is eminently curable.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)work better.
But this is very exciting news!