From Fatal to Fearless How Patients Can Take Control of Their Disease and Fear Cancer Less – The ASCO Post
In 1996, at the age of 37, Kathy Giusti was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer multiple myeloma and told she had about 3 years to live. In the mid-1990s, effective therapies for this second most common blood cancer were nearly nonexistent. Standard of care for myeloma consi sted of oral melphalan and prednisone, and autologous stem cell transplantation was still in the experimental phase for treatment of the cancer. With no new treatments on the horizon, the urgency to buy more time for herself—and