SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - cancer-free

Hear her story in tonight’s Avera Medical Minute.

Diane Banck was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma back in 2016. But now, she can say these three words:

“I’m cancer-free,” said Avera patient Diane Banck.

It’s a great feeling after a long journey. When Diane got her original diagnosis nearly ten years ago, she underwent a stem cell transplant.

Then in 2023, her cancer started coming back. She needed another treatment option.

“She had four lines of therapy prior to seeing me, so the obvious next step would be to do the CAR-T therapy,” said Waqas Jehangir, MD, with the Avera Cancer Institute. “CAR-T therapy is a Chimeric Antigen Receptor therapy.”

It uses a patient’s cells to find and fight cancer cells.

“Basically, it’s collectin

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