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Immune to Cancer: The CRI Blog

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    Maureen O’Grady

    Doctors Said She Had One Year to Live. Immunotherapy Proved Them Wrong. When faced with a diagnosis…
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    Proof of Concept: Judy Perkins and the Power of Research

    Judy Perkins went from a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis to being nearly a decade disease-free, thanks…
  • Karen Peterson

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    Don’t Count Yourself Out: Karen Peterson’s Immunotherapy Story

    Karen’s Breast Cancer Journey In 2015, Karen Peterson received a diagnosis of stage 1 triple-negative breast cancer….
  • Rikki Rockett

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    Drumming Back Oral Cancer: Rikki Rockett’s Immunotherapy Story

    Rikki Rockett’s Oral Cancer Journey In 2015, Rikki Rockett, best known as the drummer for Poison, was…
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    How Immunotherapy Saved Emily’s Life

    Emily Whitehead’s Battle with Leukemia At only six-years-old, Emily Whitehead was facing a life-threatening recurrence of acute…
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    Defying the Odds: Janie’s Battle With Melanoma

    When Los Angeles-area resident Janie Ferling learned in 2013 that a lump in her neck was malignant…
  • Brendan Connors

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    After Cancer, Fulfilling Childhood Dreams

    Jumping out of a plane. Ice climbing. Hiking the Grand Canyon. These are a few of the…
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    A Leap of Faith That Changed Everything

    Sharon Belvin went from a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis to becoming one of the first patients successfully…
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