A three-year-old boy with metastatic liver cancer had already endured chemotherapy, major surgery and multiple attempts to remove tumors when doctors turned to an experimental immune-cell therapy. His cancer had returned despite aggressive treatment, leaving researchers with a difficult case and few conventional options. Then came an extraordinary result. After two outpatient infusions of genetically …
For decades, a cancer diagnosis has often pushed patients toward a familiar set of choices. Surgeons could cut. Radiation teams could aim beams at diseased tissue. Chemotherapy could move through the body in search of malignant cells. Each path has saved lives, yet each can leave patients facing pain, fatigue, scarring or long recovery. A …
Ripon is a small city east of Sacramento, home to around 14,000 people, the kind of place where news travels fast, and neighbors know each other’s children by name. For most of its residents, Weston Elementary School was simply where kids went to learn. Then, over the course of a few years, something began happening …