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16th June 2018
12:47pm BST

Phelan was given three doses of cancer immunotherapy drug, Pembrolizumab, which is normally not licensed for cervical cancer. She said her doctor in Dublin's St Vincent's Hospital has been campaigning for the treatment to become available to more women in Ireland with similar diagnoses. "I wasn’t going to take no for an answer", she said.”He was bursting to tell me, to be honest. He said, ‘This is just absolutely fantastic news and you’re just absolutely not going to believe it. There’s significant shrinkage in your tumours’.
“My stomach has gone down, I’m not in pain anymore.”
"When you are given a terminal diagnosis and you have no hope, you’ll do whatever you have to get the drug if you think it’s going to work."The Limerick woman said that she wasn't "naive enough" to think that the treatment could cure her cancer, but that she found the news "amazing." Phelan is one of the 206 women so far who were given incorrect screening results from CervicalCheck.
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