'Fighting spirit and hope': Woman details 11 years of stage 4 pancreatic cancer

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'My story is so unusual. You never hear about long-term survivors.'

At first, her oncologist recommended chemotherapy to “make her comfortable” because other treatment options seemed impossible.

“A tumor was forming in the left side of my brain so it was affecting my right side,” she said. “I had brain surgery to remove the tumor followed up with radiation. The brain has given me the most problems.” In 2018, she experienced a seizure while she was at work as a preschool teacher. A biopsy revealed it was cancer again and she underwent radiation. Again, in 2020 she had another recurrence of cancer in her brain and she started a new chemotherapeutic regimen. In July 2020, she hit her head and doctors worried she had a hematoma, pooling of blood under the skin.Her doctor recommended that she visit a dermatologist for a biopsy to be safe.

 

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