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Killing cancer with a breakthrough therapy | 60 Minutes Full Episodes





From 2015, Scott Pelley’s report on brain cancer patients that are in clinical trials of a therapy that uses a re-engineered polio virus to kill cancer cells; And from 2016, Pelley’s follow up report on the clinical trials after the therapy was granted “breakthrough status” by the FDA.

0:00 Introduction
0:11 Killing Cancer, Part 1
14:53 Killing Cancer, Part 2
26:54 Breakthrough Status, Part 1
39:39 Breakthrough Status, Part 2

Comments:

1/ I am very grateful for the success of this much needed therapy.  As an RN my heart dropped when I realized that Stephanie Hopper was Stephanie Lipscomb, the trail blazer of this research. 60 minutes should add her maiden name at 54:10. May her light continue to shine through and through to these brave souls and their families.

2/ It's so sad that Stephanie and several others died from this horrible disease. They will always be remembered as pioneers in our struggle to make cancer a thing of the past. God bless them all.

3/ I lost my wife to gliosarcoma June 23, 2004. Gliosarcoma is similar to the glioblastoma discussed in this video but even more aggressive. She fought it with grace and courage for 18 months, 3 times longer than she was given at diagnosis. She was also a 5 year breast cancer survivor, the two cancers being unrelated.

The MRI's shown here could have been hers insofar as they're so similar. Seeing these brings back such a rush of painful memories. Sighs, I miss her terribly.

Yet my heart is gladdened by this report, with the hope others will not have to endure what she and I did.

I have the gray ribbon for brain cancer as my profile avatar. For all those who fought and lost, lest we forget, and to those few who've fought and won, your courage is beyond compare.