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Indian-Origin Woman Given Months To Live Now Cancer-Free After Drug Trial In UK
The woman said she is looking forward to celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary.
London:
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.
“When I was offered the trial, I didn’t know if it would work for me, but I thought that at least I could do something to help others and use my body for the next generation. At first, I had many horrible side effects including headaches and spiking temperatures, so I was in hospital over Christmas and quite poorly. Then thankfully I started to respond well to the treatment,” she said.
The previously fit and healthy mother of two grown-up children, worked as a clinical lead at a care home for the elderly.
She discovered she had an aggressive triple negative form of breast cancer in November 2017, when she found a lump above the nipple.
She underwent six months of chemotherapy and a mastectomy in April 2018, followed by 15 cycles of radiotherapy which cleared her body of cancer.
Then in October 2019 the cancer returned, and scans showed multiple lesions throughout her body meaning she had a poor prognosis.
The cancer had spread to the lungs, lymph nodes and chest bone and she was given the devastating news that she had less than a year to live. Two months later, and with no other options left, David was offered the opportunity to be part of research by participating in a Phase I clinical trial.
“I celebrated my 50th birthday in February 2020 while still in the middle of treatment and not knowing what the future held. Two and a half years ago I thought it was the end and I now feel like I’ve been reborn,” she said.
“There is a change in my life after returning from India to see family in April and I have decided to take early retirement and to live my life in gratitude to God and to medical science. My family have been very supportive of this decision. I will be celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary in September. I have so much to look forward to,” she said.
“My Christian faith helped me a lot on this journey and the prayers and support from family and friends gave me strength to face the challenge,” she added.
By June 2021, scans showed no measurable cancer cells in her body and she was deemed cancer free. She will remain on treatment until December 2023 but continues to show no evidence of the disease.
“We are really pleased that Jasmin has had such a good outcome. At The Christie we are continually testing new drugs and therapies to see if they can benefit more people,” said Professor Fiona Thistlethwaite, medical oncologist and clinical director of Manchester CRF at The Christie.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Ron Rivera of Washington Football Team cancer-free
Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera was declared cancer-free after a checkup Thursday.
Rivera, who announced on Aug. 20 that he had squamous cell cancer, tweeted thanks Thursday for the support he received during his treatment and recovery.
“Thank you everyone for your prayers, letters, texts & notes of encouragement & support. It truly made a difference in my treatment & recovery!#RiveraStrong @WashingtonNFL,” he wrote.
Thank you everyone for your prayers, letters, texts & notes of encouragement & support. It truly made a difference in my treatment & recovery!#RiveraStrong @WashingtonNFL pic.twitter.com/0s5byndWyF
— Ron Rivera (@RiverboatRonHC) January 29, 2021
That social media post came after both his wife, Stephanie, and daughter, Courtney, took to social media earlier Thursday to announce that Rivera had defeated cancer.
“Prayers have been answered. Thx to all the Drs & nurses who ‘Coached up’ @RiverboatRonHC and me and gave us the winning game plan to defeat cancer. The PET scan said it all, cancer you lost this fight! #RiveraStrong,” Stephanie Rivera tweeted.
Added Courtney, who works as a producer for Washington’s social media: “Just gotten off the phone with mom and dad leaving the hospital @RiverboatRonHC is officially cancer free!!!”
Prayers have been answered. Thx to all the Drs & nurses who “Coached up” @RiverboatRonHC and me and gave us the winning game plan to defeat cancer. The PET scan said it all, cancer you lost this fight! #RiveraStrong
— Stephanie Rivera (@CoachRiv2) January 28, 2021
Thank you all for the love and prayers ❤️💛 just got off the phone with mom and dad leaving the hospital @RiverboatRonHC is officially cancer free!!! https://t.co/zxHls7WV7g
— Courtney Rivera (@NFL2Ucla) January 28, 2021
Ron Rivera needed to undergo seven weeks of treatment for the cancer during the season, which included three rounds of chemotherapy and proton therapy five days a week.
He ended his treatment on Oct. 26. That day, a video captured the moment when he walked down the hallway of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute flanked by cheering medical personnel — all wearing black “Rivera Strong” T-shirts — culminating in his ringing a bell to signify the end.
Though his prognosis was good from the start, the treatments took a toll. He needed to use a golf cart during practice and his energy level decreased. But he missed only three practices and never missed a game, though he admitted that one week early in the season he was close to stopping. But he pushed through.
He did have to adjust his daily routine. He’d take naps throughout the day — after videoconference sessions with reporters, for example. His wife or daughter would drive him home in the late afternoon or early evening as fatigue overwhelmed him.
“At times you get nauseous,” he said in October. “At times your equilibrium is messed around with, almost a sense of vertigo. And then the nausea. It hits you at any time, anywhere. But the fatigue, going out to practice it limited me, and that bothers me because I can’t coach the way I coach.”
Rivera, 59, lost 36 pounds and weighed 232 at one point — six pounds under his playing weight with the Chicago Bears in the 1980s.
“I was amazed. Usually our patients, halfway in, stop working,” Dr. John Deeken, the oncologist and president of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute, told ESPN in November. “Most of our patients toward the end of their treatment are very close to needing to be hospitalized because there are so many complications.”
Rivera and Washington were rewarded as it won the NFC East. Washington won five of its last seven games to finish 7-9 before losing to Tampa Bay in the wild-card round of the playoffs. Players said throughout the season that watching Rivera battle cancer helped inspire them. The coaches said it made a difference.
“This team, watching him, understood when he said we’re going to have opportunities and we’re going to win and we’ll change the culture; they saw it firsthand because they saw what he’ll go through,” said assistant defensive backs coach Richard Rodgers in December. “He stayed consistent in what he wanted done.”
Rivera has said he’d like to become an advocate for affordable health care. His brother Mickey died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.
“After going through it and seeing just how expensive it is … you think, ‘Gosh, how can people afford this that aren’t in the situation or the position that I’m in?'” he said in November. “That’s really helped to shape my views, just saying and thinking to myself, we need to have some sort of affordable care in the United States for everybody.”