Stage 4 breast cancer patient given 2 years to live survives with fourth pillar of treatments

Less than three years ago, Tina Willits, now 53, thought she had just two years to live.Today, she is cancer-free and wants the world to know about the treatment that saved her.The Florida mother and grandmother first felt a lump in late 2021, just months after a normal mammogram. In March 2022, she discovered that she had HER2-positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease in which the cancer cells have an abnormally high level of a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2).“I still remember the doctor coming in and telling us that it was in my lymph nodes, ribs, spine, sternum, and bones,” Willits told Fox News Digital during an on-camera interview.Willits was told that she had golf ball-sized tumors and that the disease was too advanced for a mastectomy.She was placed on end-of-care chemotherapy and told to “enjoy the time you have left.”“The doctor told me, ‘We will try to stop the progression,’ but she said ‘the best we can probably offer you is about 24 months.’”Willits wasn’t satisfied with just stopping the progression of her cancer.“I have five biological children and I was raising two of my bonus babies, and I had four grandkids at the time,” she said. “And I was just determined that I wanted it gone.

That was my goal.And I remember my oncologist telling me that was never going to happen.”After doing some of her own research, Willits learned about an alternative treatment called immunotherapy, which uses the body’s immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells. For decades, the go-to treatments for cancer have been chemotherapy, radiation and surgery — but some experts are calling immunotherapy the “fourth pillar” of cancer treatments.In her research, she came across Dr.

Jason R.Williams of The Williams Cancer Institute in California, who offers a new cancer therapy that uses cold gases and the body’s own cells to freeze and fight tumors. “Immunotherapy teaches the i...