How cool is this? St. Jude Children's Hospital and the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis have teamed up for the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, an attempt to map out the genomes of 600 pediatric cancer patients. The more I learn about chemotherapy protocols and all the toxicities that come with them, the more I can't wait for a future where specific tumor mutations or cancer genes can be targeted to treat the disease without causing infertility, cardiomyopathy, immunosupression, extreme nausea, hair loss, etc. Yay!
It'd be great if the cute little 16 month old boy I did a bone marrow aspiration on last week had a better than 25% chance of survival with his Stage 4 Hepatoblastoma. It'd be great if our 19 year old girl just recovering from sepsis and trying to survive her third relapse of ALL could go have fun in college with her boyfriend. It'd be great if our 6 year old boy with Hodgkin's Lymphoma didn't need radiation and could still have kids when he grows up. The future can't get here soon enough!
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