In the Baltimore Sun article, The trial of our lives, experimental treatment, researched by oncologist Dr. Leisha Emens of Johns Hopkins, is offered to terminal cancer patients in hopes to create a vaccine to prevent breast cancer.
Annie Siple, 43, is one of the women being treated by the vaccine. She lives in Orlando, Fla. and leaves her family to make several trips to Baltimore for the treatment. Her breast cancer spread to her liver and her opposition to chemotherapy has lead her to this small clinical trial. After three months of this treatment she wants to know if it's working.
"The news isn't perfect," Emens said, "but it's not terrible." There weren't any new tumors although there had been some growth. Siple would continue treatment. The vaccine was devised so that the body's immune system could attack cancer cells. "Sometimes with immune therapy," Emens said, "you can have a kind of delayed response."
This article is just one of six chapters in this special report. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is reassuring that some new ideas are surfacing. The article states, "Once the disease spreads, there's no cure." Too many people have been affected by breast cancer as "about 40,000 American women die of it every year." Restoring hope is worth the experimentation.
3 comments:
Good example here of Chapter 7's typical pattern for a blog post, Cait.
You had good personality and snappy, short paragraphs. Great job!
Great headline and very nice details from the original source.
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