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Grandmother Beats Four Cancers in 40 Years
18 Sep
Summary
- Woman diagnosed with breast, cervical, thyroid, and lung cancer.
- She has been treated for various cancers since the 1980s.
- A new trial is helping her manage lung cancer with minimal side effects.
Susan Gasson, a 75-year-old grandmother, has overcome four separate cancer diagnoses spanning four decades, expressing gratitude for her life.
Her health challenges began in the 1980s with breast cancer, followed by cervical cancer in the same decade, for which she underwent a hysterectomy. In 1996, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, requiring surgery and radiotherapy.
Her most recent battle, diagnosed in 2020, is small cell lung cancer. Following surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, Susan enrolled in a clinical trial for lung cancer patients with a HER2 gene mutation.
This trial has significantly improved her quality of life, with her lung tumor shrinking and side effects minimized, allowing her to witness milestones like her granddaughter starting university.
