Melanoma
University Hospital Breaks Ground In Cancer Vaccine Research
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 20th, 2001
"I was on my way out to pick up his birthday cake when I got the news and I thought, 'I'll have to put this on the back burner until tomorrow,'" Pruett recalled of January 20, 1999. "I couldn't think about it then. I had to organize my son's birthday party."
The 42-year-old woman who lives in Virginia said she didn't realize the severity of her condition until nine months later, when magnetic resonance imaging showed the cancer had spread to her brain.
"I remember looking at the nurse when she was telling me, and I remember my ears getting really hot," Pruett...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-06-20)
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