An American woman who owes her life to a bespoke cancer treatment is speaking out to raise awareness of the procedure, CAR T cell therapy.

Laurie Adami was diagnosed in 2006 at the age of 46 with advanced, incurable blood cancer – stage IV follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

“My prognosis was not good,” recounts Adami, who had a six-year-old son at the time.

She underwent six different treatments over the next 12 years.

“I was in treatment nonstop, I never had a break,” says Adami, who had to give up her job as chief executive of a software company.