This is such a great idea, to showcase science wins! There are SO many! My case features an old miracle drug, and it probably saved my life. Prednisone stopped my idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpera when I was in my teens 🥳
My own husband has metastatic pancreatic cancer and after a good response to standard chemotherapy, it started to fail. Now he is in a multi-center trial of two experimental medicines.C, After initial success but then failure of standard chemotherapy for PDAC and three months into the trial his cancer is stable. This is very unusual for this vicious cancer. We hear that some other patients in the trial reportedly also are doing well. While this trial is funded by a pharmaceutical company, it's based on many years of NIH basic research.
NIH funding of cancer trials will be seriously impacted if the current budget bill passes. So many cancer patients need better and less toxic treatments that this is truly tragic
Carol Peyser MD, Johns Hopkins Medical School class of 1984, "Stand Up for Science and Sanity"-- scienceandsanity.bsky.social@scienceandsanity
I don't have any disease or drug related story but here goes, When I was in school I read a chapter regarding plant biology in a short manner, never thought it would become start of my journey as a researcher (Not pursuing PhD yet but soon I'll pursue) looking back at now it was all worth it.
This is such a great idea, to showcase science wins! There are SO many! My case features an old miracle drug, and it probably saved my life. Prednisone stopped my idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpera when I was in my teens 🥳
I really appreciate all your posts and columns 💕
Ohhh thank you for sharing. Would you be willing to let me interview you so I can right about it? I want to share more and more examples as possible.
Thanks for the refreshing look at how wonderful science is! Our world today is so mad that we need continuous reminders...
Thanks for the superb idea about Pub Tales as a way to spread knowledge of the impact of basic science on our lives..
Here's one account of how a clinical trial saved a man who now is a fifteen-year survivor of pancreatic cancer (PDAC), against all odds: https://www.pancan.org/stories/survivors/9-year-survivor-says-clinical-trials-saved-life/ This interview was from when he had only survived nine years but his remission has continued to this day.
My own husband has metastatic pancreatic cancer and after a good response to standard chemotherapy, it started to fail. Now he is in a multi-center trial of two experimental medicines.C, After initial success but then failure of standard chemotherapy for PDAC and three months into the trial his cancer is stable. This is very unusual for this vicious cancer. We hear that some other patients in the trial reportedly also are doing well. While this trial is funded by a pharmaceutical company, it's based on many years of NIH basic research.
NIH funding of cancer trials will be seriously impacted if the current budget bill passes. So many cancer patients need better and less toxic treatments that this is truly tragic
Carol Peyser MD, Johns Hopkins Medical School class of 1984, "Stand Up for Science and Sanity"-- scienceandsanity.bsky.social@scienceandsanity
I don't have any disease or drug related story but here goes, When I was in school I read a chapter regarding plant biology in a short manner, never thought it would become start of my journey as a researcher (Not pursuing PhD yet but soon I'll pursue) looking back at now it was all worth it.
Love this! It’s nice to read some good news for a change! Thanks for sharing!