After receiving 'last-resort' clinical treatment for Stage 4 colon cancer, which she had been afflicted with for almost ten years, a Minnesota woman miraculously recovered. At the age of 23, Emma Dimery received a colon cancer diagnosis in 2013. Ms. Dimery had a "softball-sized" and a "golf ball-sized" tumor, according to the results of a colonoscopy.
"They discovered a tumor in my intestines the size of a softball and a golf ball. At that point, they can only say with certainty that it was Stage 3, but there's a good probability it may have been Stage 4 already," she told Today.
After receiving a Stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis, Ms. Dimery received radiation, chemotherapy, and various combination treatments, none of which seemed to be effective.
Ms. Dimery stated that she was "out of options" and that she had been "basically treading water, doing immunotherapy every other week for probably four years or so."
She discovered a clinical trial at the university of Minnesota that might be able to assist her just when everything looked hopeless. Ms. Dimery was thrilled and enrolled in the therapy, which she received in late 2022 and early 2023. Dr. Emil Lou was in charge of the clinical trial and evaluated an experimental genetic therapy that is now referred to as the "next frontier of immunotherapy."
Unexpected news
Ms. Dimery got the shocking news two months after finishing the study. She was healed.
"No signs of illness were found. It was incredible. Up until that moment in my adult life, I was essentially a cancer patient.
According to Dr. Lou, his work used "CRISPR gene editing" to target the inside of cells, whereas the majority of immunotherapies target the outside of cells.
"The immune system's ability to combat the malignancy is being hindered by certain targets within the cell. It acts as a sort of barrier to keep the body's immune system away from the cancer cells.
"In Emma's case, it succeeded in eliminating any evidence of the cancer she had been dealing with for nearly a decade."
Ms. Dimery reports that she is doing "really well" two years after the trial. She went on to say that the experiment had altered her perspective on cancer.
"They discovered a tumor in my intestines the size of a softball and a golf ball. At that point, they can only say with certainty that it was Stage 3, but there's a good probability it may have been Stage 4 already," she told Today.
After receiving a Stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis, Ms. Dimery received radiation, chemotherapy, and various combination treatments, none of which seemed to be effective.
Ms. Dimery stated that she was "out of options" and that she had been "basically treading water, doing immunotherapy every other week for probably four years or so."
She discovered a clinical trial at the university of Minnesota that might be able to assist her just when everything looked hopeless. Ms. Dimery was thrilled and enrolled in the therapy, which she received in late 2022 and early 2023. Dr. Emil Lou was in charge of the clinical trial and evaluated an experimental genetic therapy that is now referred to as the "next frontier of immunotherapy."
Unexpected news
Ms. Dimery got the shocking news two months after finishing the study. She was healed.
"No signs of illness were found. It was incredible. Up until that moment in my adult life, I was essentially a cancer patient.
According to Dr. Lou, his work used "CRISPR gene editing" to target the inside of cells, whereas the majority of immunotherapies target the outside of cells.
"The immune system's ability to combat the malignancy is being hindered by certain targets within the cell. It acts as a sort of barrier to keep the body's immune system away from the cancer cells.
"In Emma's case, it succeeded in eliminating any evidence of the cancer she had been dealing with for nearly a decade."
Ms. Dimery reports that she is doing "really well" two years after the trial. She went on to say that the experiment had altered her perspective on cancer.
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