There are promising new breakthroughs giving patients and their families a reason to hope. In 2015, president jimmy carter suffered from late stage melanoma, a cancer once thought to be a death sentence. But after undergoing a new treatment, his tumors disappeared. And today, he is cancer free. How close are we really to finding a cure for cancer . To help answer that question, we are joined tonight by dr. Bill nelson. He is the director of the comprehensive Cancer Center at johns hopkins. Dr. Louise perkins is chief science officer at the Melanoma Research alliance. Dr. Neil segal is the clinical director of the immuno therapeutics group. Tom marsilje is an oncology Drug Discovery scientist and patient advocate who was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 40. You are an oncology researcher working on lung cancer primarily. In 2012, you had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Tell us what happened. I have always wanted to go into oncology Drug Discovery since high school.
President obama there were a grup of churches on the south side who tried to deal with the steel plant that had closed in the area. The economic station that had been taking place but also the racial tensions and turnover that was happening in these communities. So they formed an organization. They hired me as what was called a community organizer. I did not really know what that meant. Or how to do it. But i accepted the job and for the next three years i lived right here in hyde park but i worked further south in communities like roseland and west pullman. Working class neighborhoods. Many of which had had changed rapidly from white to black in the late 1960s, 1970s. And full of wonderful people who were proud of their communities, proud of the steps they had taken to try to move into the middle class, but were also worried about their futures because in some cases their kids werent doing as ell as they had. In some cases these communities had been badly neglected for a very long tim
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Half. Mr. Obama thank you, hey. Thank you. Hey. Ows it going . Please, everybody have a seat. Have a seat. We love you mr. Obama so whats been going on while ive been gone . It is wonderful to be home it at the rful to be university of chicago. Its wonderful to be on the south side of chicago and its wonderful to be with these young people here and what i want to do is just maybe speak very briefly at the top about why were here and then i want to spend most of the time that were together hearing from these remarkable young people who are i think representative of some amazing young people who were in the audience as well. Was telling these guys that it was a little over 30 years ago that i came to chicago. I had years old and gotten out of college filled th idealism and absolutely certain that i was going to change the world. But [laughter] i had no idea how. Or where or what ways going to be doing. So i worked first to pay off some student loans. And then i went to work at the city c