>> correct. >> everybody needs to have this thing apparently on their iphones. you said the coaches have had training in the past as well. this is kind of reminding them. >> a refresher course. this is a kid that's got a 4.0 grade point average. the coaches said he's the kind of guy you want your daughter to marry. great story. >> joe carter with us this morning. a wow sports moment of the morning. we're going to be at the top of the hour with "saturday morning" spm. right now, we can hand it over to the good doctor. good morning, i'm dr. sanjay gupta reporting to you from los angeles. i'm out here for the stand-up to karnes telethon. you can see a lot of preparations going on behind me. here's a startling fact, half of

all men, a third of all women in the united states are expected to develop cancer in their lifetime. and one person dies from this disease every single minute. just about everyone you know in some way has been affected by this terrible disease which is why so many people have come here now from hollywood celebrities to musicians, athlete, journalists, all showing their support in standing up to cancer. i can tell you, a lot of the money that's going to be raised is targeted for innovative cancer research. that's going to be our focus as well. from rehearsal, to show "time." where have we been with cancer. how do you beat the odds. the producer laura zisken has breast cancer. it's spread to her bones, her liver. she's going to be talking to be about it. another celebrity talking to me very close to my heart is among

li angelina jolie, talking about pakistan, of course. the medical care that's needed now is needed for sometime to come. she watched a lot of those reports, she's there now in her capacity as goodwill ambassador for the u.n. you bring such awareness to what's happening there. why do you think people haven't paid as much attention to what's happening in pakistan? >> i think people have fatigue in general when it comes to disaster leaf. but if i can say, the thing i've learned the most in being here is that we tend to focus on one issue at a time because that seems to be what people can absorb and care for. pakistan, as you know is so complex it has not just the people from the flood and the 18 million affected now it still has the 1.7 afghan people who are here and they've been displaced from the flood. >> you tend to think of these places as over there, somewhere else, not here. but when you go, and i was there as well, you meet people. there are real faces and stories

behind these crazy high numbers, raymond and zanya gould are two people you met. how did you meet them? >> this was very unique for me because i met this beautiful older couple who are in their 70s. and they worked their whole lives. the man had been in the pakistani military twice. he lived off a pension. he built this home and children and grandchildren it's very modest but he had something. now, they're both dealing with sickness. now, the woman is so embarrassed of her situation. and the man spoke of the fact that he never felt in his lifetime that he is ever going to be able to recuperate what he's lost. but he would never, ever have again nice things. that he would never have a nice bed, a nice house. and then they've lived in this place since 1972 and raised their children and grandchildren

there. and in a moment in a few hours, it was completely gone. and they're really good people and really just kind, wonderful hard-working older people who -- who will pass away most likely in this mud-covered area. >> i think it's almost more heartbreaking to hear they're embarrassed to tell you about it. i don't know how that should make somebody feel. i travel through these campus, angelina, where i saw these kids in their tents, in situations that you're describing, doing their homework. being a father as well, i don't know, it just really got at me because they have dreams and aspirations and hopes, and those things are spread throughout the world evenly. are you optimistic about the next generation of pakistan? it's a young country. it's been devastated so many times now as you just mentioned? >> i think we have no choice but to be optimistic, to have hope. without that, i think we're just lost and things deteriorate. this part of the world, they are

resilient people. to think of all they've been hit with, they continue to move on, to rebuild. to trade. to educate. to learn. they're really trying and they fought through a lot. and they'll continue to fight through, that goes for the afghani people as well. we have to support them. for all of the people worried about conflict in this part of the world and they feel like it's far away. or they're not sure, they don't understand the corruption. for all of this, the only way to make for a healthier, most hopeful, stronger pakistan and afghanistan is to help support education. is to help people, especially in this time of need. to not just allow for more devastation and more desperation. >> this is ongoing. i think a lot of the reports would have you believe that this is somewhat over. but the way -- you know, the flooding continues in some of the parts of the south, where i was most recently. there are places still being displaced. have you gotten a sense of the scope of this.

they say the size of the state of florida or new england. how do you convey the scope of this to people back home? >> it's very difficult to say to people, please care, please help. but i think, you know, we're both thinking, you know, having been here to meet these people, just to say, just remember, they're people, they're family. they're lovely, hard-working people, beautiful children. and they deserve dignity and assistance. >> angelina jolie just so informed, so passionate about what's going on in pakistan. hopefully bringing a lot of attention there as well. we are here at the stand up to cancer telethon. most of the most common cancers is skin karnes. one of the deadliest is melan a melanoma. imagine you had a mole on your leg, you go to get it checked out but by the time you do that is actually spread to your entire body. that's exactly what happened to a woman you're about to meet. we're also going meet her doctors who figure out a way to

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i feel like i got famous, i got cancer and i lived just because i've been chosen to talk about it. >> and we're back with sgmd. this year alone, more than 1 million people will hear from their doctor that they have a diagnosis of cancer. 125 million are living with cancer. pamela coffey found a mole on her left thigh. a minor nuisance, she thought, but she wept to the dermatologist anyway. >> he even thought it was okay. but he still removed it and sent it off tour biopsy and it came

back it was melanoma. >> for the next 13 years, coffey was cancer-free. about a year ago, she and her husband found out the cancer was back. >> scares you to death. what do we do now? what's the next step? how do we battle this? >> reporter: the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, her bones, they are liver. treatment was grueling. >> i had two surgeries to remove lymph nodes, 32 treatments of radiation. and two weeks of interfuron treatments. >> reporter: none of it worked. the cancer was still there. dr. jess sauceman is running a clinical trial that tests an experimental drug that targets a genetic mutation in her tumor that it making the cancer grow. >> that mutation actually triggers the tumor cell to multiply.

>> reporter: the mutation called b-rath is a protein pound. >> we have a protein or molecule that can block the function of that protein. we can cause cell death quite rapidly. >> reporter: identifying a mutation in a tumor and developing a dlaug targets it, well, that's called personalized medicine. and dr. william powell, director of personalized cancer medicine at vanderbilt says it's it is the fult of cancer treatments. >> the hope is giving the right drug to the right patient at the right time. maybe avoiding a drug that may not be useful. and maximizing the benefits of the drug. >> reporter: the national cancer institute is part of the international newt of health and supports and coordinates cancer research throughout the united states and abroad. it also conducts its own research. much of it using information gleaned from the mapping. dr. harold varn sochlt z,

director, has spent the lastle years on cancer research. he's optimistic about the future of cancer care. >> i've never seen a time with so much promise. >> reporter: that's because, he says, researchers now have the ability to look inside of a cancer cell, take it apart. >> we can use our knowledge of what's wrong with the cancer cell to try to design better diagnostic tests. and tests that not only tell us whether the cancer is there, but whether the cancer actually dangerous. >> reporter: but there is another equally important element of the fight against cancer. clinical trials. >> that's why we have to send a very clear message to patients in this country who do have karnes and to their doctors that it's going to be very important that patients be enrolled in clinical trials to be sure that we have drugs that will be official to patients now and patients in the future. >> reporter: pam coffey's participation in vanderbilt's clinical trial may help get her drug approved for countless

other cancer patients. just three days into her trial, after taking four pills in the morning and four at night each day she says the results are stunning. >> it was back to the old pam. i wasn't sick in my stomach. i didn't have the nausea, the vomiting. the tiredness. i was starting to get a little energy back. my appetite. >> and pam there is a good example of why clinical trials should always be an option. and there are new tools being developed every single day. next, you're going to meet a father who found out he had the deadliest form of brain cancer. >> all of a sudden, i felt this jolt through my left leg and my left arm. >> if you asked him, he would say the only thing he wanted to do is make it to the most important day of his daughter's life. he didn't think he would be able to do that. then there's was a revolutionary new treatment. why this story next. it shows yos to help improve your bone strength. like bone-healthy exercises that are easy to do.

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it's scary. it's a scary moment. you think you might be doing something that's life-threatening. and it really helped me realize that nobody's exempt. >> you may have hurt of a type of brain tumor called a glioblastoma. it's the type of cancer that

killed senator ted kennedy. i can tell you as a neurosurgeon, i saw a lot of these tumors but we haven't made much progress in terms of treatment. it remains one of the worst diagnosis a patient can get. what if you can use your body's immune system to fight this cancer that's where we're heading. >> reporter: steve hall wasn't sure he'd be there at his daughter erin's wedding. almost to the year after the day after he was diagnosed with the deadliest form of brain cancer. >> i had just taken, you know, a water sample. >> reporter: paul was 60, and he thought healthy. he had no idea he had a brain tumor until one saturday morning in august when he collapsed by the pool. >> all of a sudden, i felt this jolt through my left leg and my left arm. >> i just saw him collapse. >> reporter: there was a trip to the emergency room. and there was a brain scan. >> i felt like our whole life was turned upside down in a matter of two hours. >> reporter: and the surgeon

said, well, you have a geo blastoma multiforme, that's stage four cancer. it was disbelief. absolute fright. despair. >> reporter: hall's been through radiation. he now takes chemotherapy pills every month. but he has something else go for him, a vaccine made from his tumor. neurosurgeon andrew parsa at the university of california san francisco is hall's doctor. >> we actually do the surgery, we take the tumor out, and we make the vaccine directly from the individual patient's tumor. and give that vaccine back to the patient. >> reporter: the vaccine triggers the body's immune system to attack multiple spots on the tumor's cells. >> smallpox works. polio vaccine work. you're allowing your own body to

combat this karnes which san irregularity anyway. >> i don't think it's appropriate to use the word "cure" with glioblastoma i think we want to turn this into a chronic disease like hypertension or diabetes that takes medicine that allows you to live a normal life. >> reporter: so far, dr. parsa's small trial has shown remarkable results. more than a year into the clinical trial, none of the eight patients have had their tumors come back. with tradition treatment, fewer than a third of glioblastoma patients survive a year. >> it's really encouraging. >> reporter: a year after his diagnosis, steve hall feels well enough to dance. letting a father and daughter share one of life's precious moments. >> i can tell you as a father of three girls myself, steve, i am just so glad you were there. dr. parsa, a lot of his work is funded by federal grants also by

advocacy organizations such as the national brain tumor society. so far, clinical results have been successful and planning on expanding the trial to many more states. up next, he executive produced "pretty woman" "spiterman." her name is laura zisken. he has breast

i'm actually specifically here in support of cervical cancer tonight. it's the second largest killer of women in their 20s and 30s. i'm going to spread the word. >> and we're back with "sgmd." and everything that you see in

this room behind us is the result of her. and her efforts and her passion over the last several years. it's so great to be able to sit down with you in person. >> i know your story. i think a lot of people do. you did the right thing. >> in terms of -- >> you bet. i was a healthy girl. >> what happened? >> i got unlucky. i was, you know, someone said to me, i was diagnosed very late-stage breast cancer. and i remember it happened, someone i was working with said, what's wrong with laura? didn't she have a mammogram? i had in the year before i was diagnosed, i had five. i had five ultrasounds. i kept being told i was okay. and you want to believe you can go to the doctor, they tell you you're okay, you're okay. the last time i was told i was okay, i got in my car and thought i'm not okay. and i had -- >> you didn't feel well? >> no, i knew -- yeah, i finally was at the point where i knew something was wrong. and then the news went from bad

to worse for me. i had chemotherapy, i had a stem cell transplant, i had surgery, i had radiation, and i did well with estrogen blockers. i was highly positive, and i did well for three years. and then my cancer started slowly growing. >> from a macro standpoint, what doesn't work in science? >> the biggest problem with cancer research in this country is that the scientists are silent. and the system promotes competition and not collaboration. and we know going to the moon, the manhattan project, curing polio, you know, i like to say cancer's like the march of dimes. 1,800 americans died from polio. the entire country, that's like 300 more than die from cancer every day. the entire country was invested in finding a cure for polio. we need to do that wi.

we need to compete against the disease instead of against each other. we fund things that have a real chance. we stay within three years to get a treatment. if i could get any word out, it's really that this is -- this is a real failure on the part of this country. as you said, this is in the newspaper, 1,500 americans died today, one a minute, we're not doing everything we can. and it's actually in our reach to start to save people's lives. and at 1% reduction in cancer deaths is worth $500 billion in the economy. so when people say, we don't have money, we can't afford to do this, we can't afford not to do this. i'm not going to cure cancer with a tv show, and i'm not going to cure cancer my se

scientists alone. >> i think it was your daughter who said cancer picked the wrong woman to mess with. i have to second that. i'm honored to be here. >> we're so happy you're here. >> i'm pleased. and i'm glad you're on this team. >> great, thank you. well, you're on it now too. >> i am. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate it. thank you. >> we'll be right back. mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. good speech dad. [ whimper ] [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and its whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. took some foolish risks as a teenager. but i was still taking a foolish risk with my cholesterol. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more... and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol...stop.

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♪ wake me up when september ends ♪ >> i can tell you as a father and doctor and journalist, i was so honored to be here tonight. and watching their final good-byes, obviously the goal to stand-up to cancer is to try to fund innovative cancer research. but ending cancer is going to require much more than that. it's going to require you trying to prevent cancer in the first place, talking to your doctor, screening tests. a lot more information at cnn.com/health. and if you missed any part of our show, go to cnn.com/podcasting. this is stand up to cancer, i'm sanjay gupta. thanks so much for watching. ♪