“Typically, patients have this really nice period where, if they’ve done well from surgery, they’re going to have hopefully a really good quality of life for the next five, six, seven or eight months,” Singh said.
However, within a year of the end of treatment, the tumours invariably grow back, and often with a completely different genetic profile or landscape than the original cancers, “which is very frightening for us,” Singh said said. “It grows back almost like a completely distinct entity to what we first diagnosed.”