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Airdrie woman needs up to $1 million to fund life-saving cancer treatment in U.S.

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Brooke Kajdy , 23 , was diagnosed with stage 4 B-cell lymphoma at 20 weeks pregnant.

She underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and an immunotherapy called CAR T-cell therapy.

The immunotherapy took care of many tumours, but she still isn’t cancer-free.

A GoFundMe page has raised $ 79,237 .

Dr. Kevin Hay , Kajdy ’s oncologist and clinical scientist at the University of Calgary , said she was an outlier’ The couple is looking at two clinics, one in Houston and the other in Seattle as options for treatment.

The money would cover a portion of their expenses which would include hospital stays, tests, scans, travel costs.

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