CBS News Philadelphia<\/a>. So she turned to an experimental drug called daraxonrasib, now FDA-approved, at Main Line Health.<\/p>\n\u201cIt didn\u2019t click until she actually said that I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cSo immediately, of course, I broke down.\u201d<\/p>\n
In clinical trials, the drug doubled survival time from six to 13 months. It is the first treatment to extend the lives of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer and is being called one of the most important advances in a decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt works by stopping a critical way in which pancreas cancer grows and spreads,\u201d Main Line Health Dr. Hannah Thomas said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think we\u2019d be able to target this mutation with medication.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holmes said she hasn\u2019t had any bad side effects. She\u2019s looking forward to the arrival of a grandchild and hoping the drug will allow her to travel with her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cIt gives me hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia police officer who spent 18 years on the force is now in a different kind of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-273698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}