Tennessee resident Philip Prichard hadn’t even heard of immunotherapy or Nivolumab when he was first diagnosed with kidney cancer in the summer of 2012.
But it’s precisely that drug and groundbreaking type of cancer treatment that eventually saved his life.
Unexpected detour
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When Paula Bell was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer in her left breast in 2007, she had chemotherapy prior to undergoing a mastectomy...