Fox 12 Oregon News Story: Sam Day
News story featuring Sam Day, a patient at Mary Crowley Cancer Research and his battle with Ewing's Sarcoma
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
Aired: December 4, 2014
A Portland boy is getting a new type of cancer treatment that could save his life, and eventually, the lives of many other children diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.
Sam Day is one of 15 children in the country who have taken part in the first phase of a clinical immunotherapy trial at Mary Crowley Cancer Research Center in Texas.
Doctors took a piece of his tumor to create a personalized vaccine for Sam.
The hope is the vaccine will teach his immune system to treat the cancer as foreign and fight it.