article_snippet: When Sandra Hilburn was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2006, Sandra Hilburn was told Sandra Hilburn only had up to three months to live.
article_snippet: - Hillburn was given only two-three months to live .
article_snippet: Half of patients die within about 15 months.
article_snippet: When diagnosed in New York in April 2006, 'I was told I had two to three months to live,' Sandra Hillburn recalled in a telephone interview.
article_snippet: For the six patients who got the dummy shot, only one was still alive two years after diagnosis, surviving for about 3½ years.
article_snippet: Four surpassed two years.