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Your Tumor, a program of the Pancreatic Cancer
Action Network (PanCAN). For patients participating
in the program, PanCAN pays for a third-party company to coordinate testing. Billing for the tests themselves is handled through patients’ health insurance.
away. She even got a new dog, Lucy, an emotional
support animal, and she is arranging to volunteer with her as a therapy dog at cancer centers.
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Kiernan says that without her sister’s prodding,
she would never have been able to benefit from
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Kiernan, a retired high school nurse, was diagnosed months before the approval of Keytruda for
MSI-H solid tumors. She learned in February 2018
that she was among less than 2 percent of pancreatic
cancer patients who have tumors that are MSI-H,
and she started on Keytruda in April 2018.
Keytruda. She even remembers bringing her original
oncologist a newspaper article on immunotherapy
and being told that it wouldn’t work for her because
she had pancreatic cancer.
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“My sister is a reader. She just surfs the whole
internet,” Kiernan says of her path to tumor testing.
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“I’m a different person,” Kiernan says of her
life now. Her tumors have gotten smaller. She
had been suffering from severe back pain, but a
week after she started the drug, the pain went
“She’s older. She’s retired, has the time and loves me
very much. She did homework and found out.”
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KATE YANDELL is the digital editor of Cancer Today.
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