thought he was mentally handicapped. he cured himself by talking to the jaguars. let s get started. you may not know this, cancer will strike down one in four americans and smart people will tell you that we re losing the war on cancer. instead today i want to talk about how far we ve come. even at the end of world war ii, doctors had very few weapons against cancer. you could cut it out, blast it with radiation, with terrible side effects, but there was no medicine. and one day in 1947, a little 2-year-old boy came through the doors at children s hospital in boston. robert sandler had leukemia. it had broken through his bones, his twin, elliott, watched the ambulance take him away. back then, the disease meant death, in a matter of weeks, maybe months. but at children s hospital, dr. 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 i