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The immunotherapy treatments themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2026\/01\/29\/teddi-mellencamp-cancer-battle-update-therapy-january-2026\/\">take a major toll<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\">\u201cIt&#8217;s hard for me to touch and move, and I can see that I&#8217;m slower than I was before, and that&#8217;s really frustrating to me. Like I want to be back to the way I used to be,&#8221; Teddi shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\">She continued, &#8220;I was really fighting for my life \u2026 now that the storm has calmed a little, now I&#8217;m starting to develop fear where I didn&#8217;t have fear before. 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