15 Years of Remission After Brain Tumor Diagnosis Using Immunotherapy
The story of Netta, a patient diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, living in long-term remission 15 years after diagnosis.
Brain tumors are considered extremely resistant to traditional cancer treatments, especially when it comes to clinical grades III and IV. Tumors such as Astrocytomas (Grade III) and Glioblastoma (Grade IV) are generally associated with limited treatment options and short median survival.
Fortunately, now we know of cases of prolonged remission, as well as several cases of long-term remission that were achieved with the help of immunotherapy.
In this video, Neta from Tel Aviv (Israel), accompanied by her treating physician, Professor Shimon Slavin, tells her medical history from the moment she was diagnosed until the onset of remission. Neta’s diagnosis was a malignant tumor of the brain (Anaplastic Astrocytoma), which was detected in 2010. Today, 15 years after her diagnosis, Neta shows no signs of disease progression.
The patient went through all the traditional lines of treatment: surgical treatment, multiple chemotherapy courses, and radiotherapy. Despite everything, Neta resumed tumor growth in 2015. Neurosurgeons gave her a short time to decide on a high-risk surgical intervention, despite the fact that she was offered an extensive surgery that carried a high risk of severe disability, which she had to refuse. Neta decided to try a completely different approach, so she turned to the immuno-oncologist Professor Shimon Slavin.
Neta underwent a personalized multimodal immunotherapy program, in combination with oncolytic virus therapy and additional innovative methods.
