Husband Seeks Compassionate Use Of Drug For Wife From Top Pharma Players

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Mikaela Knapp is a 25-year-old woman from California’s Sacramento Valley suffering with a rare subtype of kidney cancer who has exhausted all possible, FDA-approved drugs to treat her metastatic disease. Her husband, Keith, and their friends and family have mounted what has become a viral campaign on social and traditional media to help her gain compassionate use or “expanded access” to one of several antibody-based drugs that unmask cancer cells hiding from the immune system.

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