With October being breast cancer awareness, this report on the Vaccine trial is timely. There are a total of 6 videos to watch and listen to what the women are enduring. What is the most fascinating is to listen to how they all state the experience with breast cancer really make them aware of how precious life really is.
I included a few links to part of the story but to read and see all visit the site. Reporting and creating an awareness of breast cancer and the work that is being done doesn’t get any better than what is documented here and all participants in late stages or have faced a return of breast cancer from years prior. BD
The reporting Reporter Stephanie Desmon and photographer Chiaki Kawajiri spent the past six months following the lives of four women enrolled in a trial of an experimental breast cancer vaccine, and the Johns Hopkins oncologist who oversees it. They witnessed virtually all of the scenes, and have first-hand accounts of the others. Desmon spent many hours interviewing Dr. Leisha Emens over multiple occasions, as well as visiting her lab, watching her give talks about her research and accompanying her to a gym to prepare for a mountain-climbing trip. Other events were reconstructed through interviews with patients, co-workers, family members and experts in the field of cancer immunology.
The trial of their lives
More information: What the vaccine doesElusive cure
For nearly a decade, Dr. Leisha Emens has been driven to develop a vaccine to stop breast cancer
Video: Hopkins doctor on quest to develop vaccineIt's not working
Peggy Murphy put her faith in an experimental breast cancer vaccine, only to be let down
Video: Murphy talks about her recurrence of breast cancerThe job of getting well
Mom endures cancer treatment in hopes daughter won't have to do the same
Video: Darby Steadman sees the potential for more life in the breast cancer vaccine trial'Leisha's Girls' come together
Breast cancer patients want more information than doctor can provide
Video: Susan Marangi talks about terminal cancer and the vaccine trialMoving on, fighting on
Patients sustained by hope; doctor readies next study of cancer vaccine
Video: Annie Siple's search for alternatives to chemotherapy brings her to vaccine study
Sun Special Report: The Trial of Their Lives -- baltimoresun.com
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