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.
We are showing memories of yesterday, a lot of people celebrating fathers day. Yes. Good day, everybody, it is, june 20th, 2016. A lot to cover here sue serio. Good to see you cant wait to cover it all. Hi alex. Hi mike. Hello to you. Are you a nice person . Seriously. If you are not so sure listen to this. How are you how and where. How and where do you shop, can influence your personality. I get it. How where you shop can influence your personality. The personality is not leading you to the store, the stories sucking you in and creating a personality. Maybe because of you have personality that is why you go to certain stores. That is what i would think it would be. If you have a certain personality would you go to a certain store. We will figure it out. Do you get your nails done . Manicure mistakes. Is your gel nail polish causing cancer. People do it because it is faster and dont to have worry about your nails being dry. Can i Say Something. Back in the day im so oldy remember back
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And jailing dissidents and bloggers and journalists will turn to its historic enemies and treat them with magnanimity. Its a silly contention. But that said, i think the way that the issue was used in the soviet context was that it was a tool to help bring about the end of the soviet union, not merely to contain the soviet union, but to end the soviet union and so, too, it can be used in the iranian context. When you look at the boldness of someone like senator jackson who confronted the soviet union and directly linked most favored nation status to improvements in human rights and free immigration, that was a tool which drove the soviets absolutely crazy, and if you read the memoirs of any of these guys, you see when carter and reagan would bring up the names of dissidents, they really, really hated it, and i think thats one sign that its the right approach. I think that human rights is actually a real achilles heel of the Iranian Regime because they are dependent upon external actors
Little skeptical wondering whether or not the tone of the country back in 65 to 70 was different than five years from today. Can you reassure me that the data or can you sort of elaborate on what you think the tone will be in five years or what makes you believe that the data will win out . Well, the good news is in five years i will be retired. No, look, i cant tell you what its going to be like in five years in our country. What i can say is dont forget in 1965 why we had to pass Voting Rights and all that stuff. Remember the part of the country that opposed all this stuff. Thats precisely the part of the country that delayed implementation of medicaid. Let me tell you about my high school. I grew up in rural arkansas. Brown vs. Board of education was 1954. We finally got total integration in 197071, my senior year. How long is that . So that part of the country totally opposed all of that stuff. And yet in five years, every Southern State had had created a medicaid program. The stat