A husband recalls his wife’s losing battle with pancreatic cancer. He shares his experience and his advice for families in similar situations.
My wife Nirmala, 69, and I had gone on a tour of Eastern Europe, which entailed long trips by bus. Nirmala started complaining of back ache. Well, our reaction was that this was due to sitting in the bus for long spells.
We met our doctor as soon as we got back. The dull back pain persisted. The X-ray showed an inflamed pancreas…
This new class of drugs unleashes the body's immune system to fight tumors. This seems to solve a century-old mystery of how cancerous cells manage to evade the body's immune system. The drug which Merck will sell under the name of Keytruda was approved by patients with advanced melanoma who have exhausted other therapies.
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