It all started with a repetitive coughing syndrome in 2007for Paterson, 27. Never a smoker, and always in the best of health, she had the least inkling that her ailment would be diagnosed as lung cancer. Her physicians too were in utter surprise and shock when it turned out to be cancer. The confirmation came after four years of battle in the diagnostic stage itself, by which time, true to the name, the lung cancer had spread cancerously. It was Stage IV cancer for which the recovery rate is very thin, with only 1 percent living for 5 years after diagnosis. Last November, Paterson placed herself on a treatment-cum-clinical trial of medicines called immunotherapies. These are drugs that don’t attack cancer directly; on the other hand, they fight the disease by strengthening the body’s immune system fight tumors and by attacking the proteins that conceal the disease from T Cells. Flutter in the industry: As immunotherapies and their drugs begin to gain popularity owing to their like
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