Steven Rosenberg: Finding a Cure for Cancer

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🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

One of the greatest revolutions in the treatment of cancer is underway. It's called immunotherapy, and the revolutionary behind it is Dr. Steven Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg has been the Chief of Surgery at the National Institute of Cancer for over four decades. During all that time he has doggedly pursued this radical idea -- that a patient's immune system could be sparked or retrained to attack cancer cells. It's an idea that was dismissed by most of the medical establishment, until patients with terminal melanoma began to survive, cancer-free, under Dr. Rosenberg's care. Now immunotherapy is one of hottest areas of medical research around the world. In this episode you'll hear the story of Dr. Rosenberg's almost super-human determination, and you'll hear from one of his patients. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
0:15.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.6	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
0:27.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:49.2	This is what it takes a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
1:00.0	I'm Alice Winkler and thanks for joining us.
1:03.0	Every episode we pull an interview out of the Academy's vault.
1:10.0	These are interviews with amazing people, people whose lives and work have stood the test of time and continue to inspire.
1:18.0	But on this episode, we've got an interview that was done so recently recently it hasn't made it into the vault.
1:25.0	So why are we rushing to get this one on?
1:28.0	Because it is about a doctor whose research is helping revolutionize the way cancers are going to be treated
1:36.1	in the future. For certain cancers, in fact, the revolution is already well underway.
1:42.4	It's called immunotherapy. So who doesn't want to hear a story,
1:47.2	ASAP, about someone successfully kicking cancer's butt? Meet Dr. Steve Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery
1:56.0	at the National Cancer Institute.
1:58.0	His story told to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Jordan
2:02.0	is riveting.
2:04.0	When I was a resident in surgery I was rotating through the West Rock spray VA hospital.
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