Baltimore Sun Publishes Series On Breast Cancer Vaccine Trial

Main Category: Breast Cancer
Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines
Article Date: 20 Oct 2008 - 2:00 PDT

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The Baltimore Sun recently published a six-part series that examines the lives of four women living with terminal breast cancer who enrolled in an experimental vaccine trial run by Leisha Emens, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Headlines appear below.

~ "The Trial of Their Lives: A Hopkins Doctor's Vaccine Offers a Hope of Survival for Four Women With Terminal Breast Cancer" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/12).

~ "Elusive Cure: For Nearly a Decade, Dr. Leisha Emens Has Been Driven To Develop a Vaccine To Stop Breast Cancer" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/13).

~ "It's Not Working: Peggy Murphy Put Her Faith on the Table in an Experimental Breast Cancer Vaccine, Only To Be Let Down" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/14).

~ "The Job of Getting Well: Mom Endures Cancer Treatment in Hopes Daughter Won't Have To Do the Same" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/15).

~ "Leisha's Girls Come Together: Breast Cancer Patients Want More Information Than Doctor Can Provide" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/16).

~ "Moving On, Fighting On: Patients Sustained by Hope; Doctor Readies Next Study of cancer Vaccine" (Desmon, Baltimore Sun, 10/17).

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