Dr. Robyn Stacy-Humphries, a radiologist for almost three decades, has saved countless lives by detecting cancer early. Her greatest contribution to medicine, however, was as a patient.
Stacy-Humphries is a three-time lymphoma survivor. In 2016, she became the first person from the Carolinas to enter a clinical trial for CAR T-cell therapy, a ground-breaking cancer treatment where a patient’s T cells are removed from their blood, sent to a laboratory to be genetically altered to destroy the cancer,…