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When doctors found a tumour on then 36-year-old Lisa Govelli’s left lung, it had grown so large it was pushing against nerves in her spine, causing her left eye to shut and triggering whole body pain after she did simple tasks such as making lunch for her two kids. Within a week, she was admitted to Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to receive intense radiation every day except Sundays. “With radiation, they had to shrink it away from my spine straight away because they said if it did grow any more that I would probably risk paralysis,” she says.Radiation (and surgery) aim to remove cancer from a specific area of the body. But the cancer had spread to five other places across Govelli’s torso. So she began chemotherapy – the most common cancer treatment, in which chemicals kill cancer cells (and, inevitably, some healthy cells) wherever they are. When she began to show signs of pancreatitis, doctors adjusted her chemo in case it was contributing.The chemotherapy seemed to have almost cleared Govelli of cancer when more bad news came: another tumour was growing on her spine. “For that to happen again, I was sick in the stomach,” she says. By then, she had heard about a breakthrough in cancer treatment: immunotherapy, which turbocharges the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. Within months, it had cleared the new tumour. More than two years later, she is still taking the drug. “It would be nice to go off it, but I am nervous [that] if I went off it, something would start growing again