Matthew Dons was just 36 when he diagnosed with terminal cancer. 🔴 Six years on he looks back on the adoptive cell transfer therapy techniques doctors in Japan carried out which he credits with saving his life.
Health CorrespondentA father of two who was given only months to live after being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer six years ago, has told how he managed to obtain a combination of cutting edge treatments in Japan to survive and become “disease free”.
The freelance business consultant was a healthy 36-year-old when doctors found a large tumour almost blocking his intestine which a CT scan showed had spread to his liver and lymph nodes. An oncologist in Norwich told him it was terminal after another scan showed it had also spread to the abdominal membrane, making it particularly difficult to treat.
The technique, also known as cellular immunotherapy, is only available in a handful of places as a lot of countries, including the UK, believe there is not enough evidence yet to offer it more widely.Adoptive cell transfer therapy, or cellular immunotherapy, uses the cells of our immune system to eliminate cancer.
Mr Dons said he hoped the NHS would eventually offer more people cell transfer therapies in the future as he credits Japan’s “world leading health system” for saving his life.
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