sidney farber was on to something. a kind of magic possession. the first chemo therapy drug. robert sandler was in the first group to receive it. here is his mother, more than 50 jeers later in a family video. every day to the hospital by discre streetcar, by bus. we didn t have a car. imagine the jubilation when it worked. within weeks, robert was back on his feet, back with the family. christmas 1948, still doing well. but it didn t last. and he had one month to go to be four when he died. robert died in the summer of 1949. nearly two full years after cancer struck. the scientific triumph that never did trump a family s pain. that s my bad memories of losing my son, after having him declared cured, because they used him as a guinea pig. i first heard this story from