Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2022
Lifesaving cancer treatment out of reach for rural people
23 August 2022 - CAR T-cell therapy eradicates cancer in some patients but remains inaccessible to people who live far from major cities with transplant centres.
Suzanne BeHanna initially turned down an experimental but potentially lifesaving cancer treatment.
Three years ago, BeHanna, then 62, a newlywed, was sick with stage 4 lymphoma, sick from two failed rounds of chemotherapy and sick of living in a trailer park near the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. It was fall 2019, and treatment had forced her to migrate 750 miles east from rural New Mexico, where she’d settled only months before her diagnosis.
