Vicky Phelan (guest editor): Why Pembrolizumab offers a lifeline to women with advanced cervical cancer

Aine Morgan, Loughrea, Co. Galway. Photograph: Hany Marzouk.

Áine Morgan was running out of treatment options until she heard about Pembro. Having access to the drug has given her renewed confidence, writes Marjorie Brennan.

In November last year, campaigner Vicky Phelan appeared alongside Áine Morgan on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live programme to call for the experimental drug Pembrolizumab to be made available by the HSE to all women in Ireland with cervical cancer, not just those affected by the smear test scandal.