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Teacher who was given months to live celebrates 10 years in remission after cancer trial
Amy Cheese, a Colorado teacher who relocated to Nebraska, celebrated 10 years of remission from lymphoma after undergoing CAR T-cell therapy at the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha. This therapy re-engineers a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. The process was described as a last resort for her treatment.
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