'Doctors told me twice there was nothing they could do to save my life - I'm still here fighting'

“I should have died four times but thankfully I didn’t. It’s been very tough, and I really shouldn’t be here. Before starting on this trial I’d suffered sepsis twice, contracted pneumonia and my right lung collapsed at one point."

Adele Adams says she shouldn't be here. Doctors have twice told her there is nothing more they can do to save her life - but she remains fighting on.

Adele, 59, was diagnosed with stage four Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in February 2016 and was put on her first course of chemotherapy. Over a six-year-period Adele, who is originally from Leicester and now lives in Wallasey in Merseyside, endured 10 different types of chemotherapy for treatment resistant lymphoma.

Tragically, each stopped working after six months and another had to be found. She also underwent two courses of radiotherapy, and has only been in remission for a month in the past eight years.

But today, Adele is enjoying life thanks to daily trial drug capsules which have shrunk her tumours to such an extent they are too small to be measured.

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Despite the best efforts of doctors at her local hospital who tried to keep the cancer at bay, in 2019 Adele’s lymphoma became more aggressive and spread to multiple places in her body. Twice she was told by doctors there was nothing more they could do for her, but she refused to let the cancer beat her.

On New Year’s Eve 2020 Adele was admitted to The Christie Hospital in Manchester for CAR-T therapy, a form of immunotherapy which involves collecting and engineering the patients’ own T cells (also part of the immune system) to treat their condition. After two weeks, Adele went into 100 per cent remission but