The leukemia patients, who were the first to undergo groundbreaking gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, continue to be cancer-free a decade later, prompting doctors to conclude CAR-T cell therapy works.
Too often, donors are filling the pockets of professional fundraisers rather than helping the needy or a worthy cause, columnist George Skelton writes.
and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. [ applause ] richard nixon, his state of the union address, 1971, announcing the u.s. was going after cancer in a big way. let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal. reporter: remarkably the last television commercial touting the joys of cigarette smoking had aired just weeks before. and until the 970s the word cancer was rarely uttered, said aloud. it was forbidden. did people 50, 60 years ago think cancer was contagious? that was part of the reason but i think also such a bad diagnosis with such a terrible prognosis it was nothing anyone wanted to admit having because it sounded like a death sentence. the head of the national cancer institute says fresh from some victories over childhood leukemia the medical community at the time believed curing cancer was within reach. the idea was as bold
just turned 4 years old, when we found bruises all over her body. took her to the pediatrician and quickly found out she had an incredibly rare and aggressive form of childhood leukemia. she had a 20% survival rate. she really endured a lot of suffering that first year. and then she had a year and a half of just wonderful cancer-free childhood. and then gracie s cancer relapsed, and it came back. it was april 2013, and my