Live Notes from @AACR’s #cbi16 Meeting on Precision Medicine: 5:10PM Big Idea A survivor’s Story

February 17, 2016 by sjwilliamspa

Tom Whitehead, father of Emily, CHOP’S first CAR-T success story

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, Ph.D.

Emily Whitehead was 5 years old when came to UPENN and CHOP (2010) with unresponsive leukemia
she was healthy up to day she was diagnosed and went to Hershey Medical Center and recieved diagnosis of CLL (came in with 21 bruises, symptom of leukemia)
parents told her that it would be the roughest time of her life but they would always tell her the truth about what would happen
she started to have relapsed disease
Dr. Sue Reingold at CHOP said to get transplant but could do at Hershey
Feb. 2012 thought got a matching donor but up to May did not find one, they wanted to do new rounds of chemo but Emily did not want that and CHOP suggested a new drug but they felt it was not right for her

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