ADVOCATING FOR NEW CANCER THERAPIES. Thanks to science I am cancer free. I don’t really like talking about me and cancer. Makes me uncomfortable. But here is the background to the above and the journey of how I arrived here. I had been on chemotherapy for some years , but the chemo for my particular lymphoma was starting to not work anymore . Things were getting a little … serious . We were all at a bit of a loss. Then out of the blue I found myself on a clinical trial . This for a new type of CAR-T therapy , that was aimed at my particular lymphoma . All brand new . We were sailing into uncharted waters. No one knew exactly what we could expect . I think I was first out of the block and i think the term for me was “Patient Zero”. From now on please address me as Mr Zero ! This turned out to be great good fortune for me . And last week I had all the scans etc , and I am pleased , indeed delighted to say that there is no cancer in my body . All clear . We are all amazed. So now first of all I want to thank Professor Miles Prince and his wonderful team in Melbourne . As well as Dr Orly Lavee and hers, in Sydney . And I am still processing this miraculous information . But of course it is not a miracle , it is science at its best. And a lot of people who care deeply about their work and their patients . I am immensely grateful . Now. Here’s why I’m posting this. Treatments like this — CAR-T therapies and others coming through in a rapidly changing medical world — I hope to be available to everyone who needs them in Australia & NZ (and worldwide ). This is what I am advocating , along with The Snowdome Foundation, to push for exactly that.
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