Ottawa Hospital cancer trial receives $4 million funding injection

📆 1/20/2023 5:30 AM
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A clinical trial at the Ottawa Hospital that is changing the lives of cancer patients is receiving an injection of money to expand a Canadian-led Immunotherapies in Cancer program.

"It feels really good to be able to say that I’m cancer free, especially when I’ve been told that I wasn’t supposed to be here," Leahy said.

"Some days, I don’t even think it’s sunken in yet, because it’s been such a crazy three years - the ups and downs." "What we’re targeting is patients who have had really no other options," says Dr. Natasha Kekre, Ottawa Hospital Hematologist. "These are patients who have failed cancer therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation, even a bone-marrow transplant - and we’re seeing in those patients, over half of them are getting into a remission state, meaning that they’re cancer free."

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