A CANCER patient who was twice told by doctors there was nothing they could do for her is fighting on thanks to drug trial which have shrunk her tumours so much they are too small to be measured.
Adele Adams, 59, was diagnosed with stage four NonHodgkin's lymphoma in February 2016 and was put on her first course of chemotherapy.
Over six years, Adele endured 10 different types of chemotherapy for treatment-resistant lymphoma.
She also underwent two courses of radiotherapy, and has only been in remission for a month in the past eight years.
Adele said: "I should have died four times but thankfully I didn't.
"It's been very tough, and I really shouldn't be here.
"Before starting on this trial I'd suffered sepsis twice, contracted pneumonia and my right lung collapsed at one point."
On New Year's Eve 2020, Adele was admitted to The Christie Hospital in Withington for CAR-T therapy, a form of immunotherapy which involves collecting and engineering the patient's T cells (also part of the immune system) to treat their condition.
"After two weeks, Adele went into 100 per cent remission but it only lasted a month before the cancer came back.
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