A woman with advanced breast cancer and given only months to live has been cured after taking part in an experimental injection, using her body’s own immune system to wipe out the tumors.
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Judy Perkins, 52, had late-stage breast cancer which had stopped responding to chemotherapy and other treatments. She had tumors the size of plums in her liver after the cancer had spread through her body.
She was told she had months to live and made a bucket list of places to visit before she died.
But thanks to a revolutionary immunotherapy treatment administered by the National Institutes of Health, the mother of two has now been cancer free for two years.
“It feels miraculous and I am beyond amazed that I have now been free of cancer for two years,” Perkins said.
The approach used was presented at the annual conference of…
