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 i dr. Bill nelson. He is the director of the conference of Cancer Center at johns hopkins. Dr. Louise perkins is chief science officer at. The Melanoma Research alliance. The. Neil segal is political director of the director. Is an oncology Drug Discovery scientist and patient advocate who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 40 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. Wanted to goays into oncology Drug Discovery since high school. I had a lot of cancer in
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 i dr. Bill nelson. He is the director of the conference of Cancer Center at johns hopkins. Dr. Louise perkins is chief science officer at. The Melanoma Research alliance. The. Neil segal is political director of the director. Is an oncology Drug Discovery scientist and patient advocate who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 40 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. Wanted to goays into oncology Drug Discovery since high school. I had a lot of cancer in
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 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. I had a lot of cancer in my family. I plan on that for
Couric welcome to the program, im katie couru c filling in for carlie rose. Topt for the our, a look at advances in Cancer Research today. Well talk to scientists louise perkins, bill knellson and neil segal and tomorrow marsilje. I could here the one who did the colon os scope, your husband has colon cancer, we need to schedule emergency surgery so i went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. I was crying saying there are a few things that scare me in life but cancer is one of them. And it was june 4, 2012. I will never forget that date for the rest of my life. That is true of most cancer patients, they never forget the day they were diagnosed. Couric a discussion about cancer for the hour next. Funding for rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Couric good evening.
Couric welcome to the program, im katie couru c filling in for carlie rose. Topt for the our, a look at advances in Cancer Research today. Well talk to scientists louise perkins, bill knellson and neil segal and tomorrow marsilje. I could here the one who did the colon os scope, your husband has colon cancer, we need to schedule emergency surgery so i went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. I was crying saying there are a few things that scare me in life but cancer is one of them. And it was june 4, 2012. I will never forget that date for the rest of my life. That is true of most cancer patients, they never forget the day they were diagnosed. Couric a discussion about cancer for the hour next. Funding for rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Couric good evening.