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malaise

(269,067 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 09:35 AM Mar 2015

Woman 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





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Woman with brain cancer survived for NINE years after being given a tetanus shot (Original Post) malaise Mar 2015 OP
Wow! catbyte Mar 2015 #1
Magnificent news! Orrex Mar 2015 #2
Sounds exciting and hopeful. mountain grammy Mar 2015 #3
I want to cry. A very important person in my life died from this form of cancer. FourScore Mar 2015 #4
Please see the HBO/Vice show on cutting edge cancer/vaccine research Sienna86 Mar 2015 #5
Wonderful news riverbendviewgal Mar 2015 #6
I sent it to a friend who survived her tumor malaise Mar 2015 #9
Thank you for your kind words riverbendviewgal Mar 2015 #11
It is a truly terrible disease and I'm so sorry you lost your son to it. pnwmom Mar 2015 #14
What wonderful news! snacker Mar 2015 #7
But but but vaccines are killers!!!! n/t rocktivity Mar 2015 #8
The tetanus shot was added to a cancer vaccine therapy laureloak Mar 2015 #10
We May be On the Cusp Of A Cure colsohlibgal Mar 2015 #12
Not quite just a tetanus shot. The tetanus shot seems to have made the other treatment pnwmom Mar 2015 #13

FourScore

(9,704 posts)
4. I want to cry. A very important person in my life died from this form of cancer.
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 12:03 PM
Mar 2015

It sounds so promising!

riverbendviewgal

(4,253 posts)
6. Wonderful news
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 12:15 PM
Mar 2015

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)
9. I sent it to a friend who survived her tumor
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 03:58 PM
Mar 2015

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)
11. Thank you for your kind words
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:10 PM
Mar 2015

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.

laureloak

(2,055 posts)
10. The tetanus shot was added to a cancer vaccine therapy
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 04:06 PM
Mar 2015

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)
12. We May be On the Cusp Of A Cure
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 05:50 PM
Mar 2015

How exciting, how wonderful to have real hope of getting to where cancer is eminently curable.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
13. Not quite just a tetanus shot. The tetanus shot seems to have made the other treatment
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 06:03 PM
Mar 2015

work better.

But this is very exciting news!

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