if from the time of diagnosis to death if one does not have any treatment that time can be as short as two to three months. >> hopefully -- >> even with the best standard of care no one beats this. most patients die within 12 to 15 months of diagnosis. layla was diagnosed with a left frontal blastoma, grade four. >> yeah. so it's devastating but i have my two young kids and that i think about so that was it so i'm like i'm going to do it for my kids, fight for my kids. >> layla was admitted to the hospital march 7th. the very next day a surgeon, a member of dr. black's team, took out as much of the tumor as he could. then came six weeks of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. after that, something new. an experimental treatment, a vaccine against cancer.

>> one of the strongest defenses we have against disease is our immune system. one of the first things that a brain tumor has to do in order to survive in the brain is that it has to make itself invisible to the immune system. >> the experimental drug isn't like a flu vaccine. it doesn't keep you from getting cancer. it uses cells from your own body to encourage your immune system to mount a targeted aggressive defense. >> we had 16 patients that were newly diagnosed with this. >> typically without the vaccine only 12% of patients would make it to the five-year mark. this small group, 16 patients, did more than three times better. >> all of the 16 patients, 6 of the 16 are alive and disease free. 3 of those 6 are alive and disease free out past five years. >> we met two of those three

patients. mary wong lee and michael wolf. >> when i tried to spell for him i think he realized there was something not right. >> went to work with a bad headache, had a seizure at the office. collapsed on the floor. called the ambulance. got to the hospital within five minutes. >> mary is now cancer free. no evidence of disease. at five years. michael? six. dr. christopher wheeler is a research scientist at the neuro surgical institute at cedar sinai. >> we take blood from the patient and change them into from kind of nondescript blood cells into highly specific immune cells which are really good at jump-starting the immune system. >> it migrates to the lymph nodes and activates t cells. they initiate a calculated response from the body's immune system killing both the tumor cells and cancer stem cells.

>> what we've learned about cancer is it really doesn't behave like a human colony. cancer behaves more like a termite colony. you have the queen termite that keeps making the offspring much like trying to get rid of termites in your house. you want to kill the queen cell or the queen termite or the cancer stem cell. >> in the next stage of dr. black's study half the patients are receiving the vaccine. half are getting a placebo. in addition to standard chemotherapy and radiation. neither layla nor the doctors know what group she's in. but she's optimistic. >> i can't get down or else, you know, i'll go down, too. so i have to stay confident. i feel really good. i really do. yeah. >> it's worth pointing out dr. black's vaccine isn't the only one out there. this general approach of ramping up the immune system in a

targeted way is one of the most promising approaches to fighting cancer. there is another brain cancer vaccine. it's known as cdx 110 and has also had promising results and is in phase three clinical trials. the last step before the fda can consider whether it works and whether it's safe enough to make it widely available. we'll keep you posted on developments. up next do you ever wonder which photos in magazines are photo shopped? i'll show you new technology that can help you detect a face. ♪ the one and only, cheerios

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in the magazine aisle does it seem like the world is full of extremely beautiful people? movie stars, actors, singers. you sometimes wonder what do these people look like in real life? it may come as no surprise but in a lot of cases the photos are fake. i recently met a man who will make you look at those covers in a whole new way. he createdelda marc marcos -- imaging software. >> how do you distinguish extreme touching up versus minimal? >> it's a gray area. i can tell you what is absolutely extreme. those are easy to categorize. everything in the middle is a little different. that's why we sort of wanted to set out to build something that is very objective. if you legislate this or even try to control it internally as a publisher it is fairly

subjective. what one person may think is extreme is very different than another person. what we want to do is just -- you can't do it practically. the mathematics lets you say this is what the average person will think. that takes away from the notion -- i think it's more fair to the publisher and more informative to the public. >> if i were leafing through a magazine, what would it look like? >> think warning label on a cigarette pack. there would be a small box, small circle, something nicely engineered, that is a number between say one and five and the five means this person looks nothing like this in real life. one means this is a legitimate image and everything else in between is gradations. >> let's look at what you're talking about. the first one is an image of you. >> right. i hit the gym pretty hard here. yeah. so i pumped myself up. this is not hard to do in any standard photo software.

on the right what you see is the heat map tells you what has actually changed and by how much. >> the shoulders, the arms. and this is about a three on our scale. it is really, i looked quite different in terms of -- >> that is interesting. if that is a three you wonder what even higher numbers are. but i think we have another one close up of i guess a woman who is a little bit older. she looks happy. she is attractive. what happened here? >> this is a great photo that -- the original is on the right and the other is on the left. this is done in most fashion magazines and advertisements. you remove all wrinkles, blemishes over the face. you can see he did a very good job on this. a very good rendition. this is a little bit over a three. the reason why it's not a four or a five is because if you look at the structure of her face, it's basically the same.

it hasn't been thinned. it hasn't been expanded. the eyes are about the same size. the mouth, nose are all the same. you can see that we leave room for the really much more extreme which tells you there are much more extreme versions of this. >> the magazine industry has long been split on the subject of retouching photos. "17" magazine took a big step and recently said it's never going to change girls' bodies or face shapes in photos and will only include images of real girls and models who are healthy. quite extraordinary and the announcement is thanks to a 14-year-old girl named julia bloom who started this petition urging the magazine to change. we're delighted to have her on the show joining us from maine. thanks for joining us, julia. >> thank you. >> i want to congratulate you first off on being such an influential voice. you're so young, just 14 years old but obviously passionate about this issue. my understanding is you started this petition after hearing your friends essentially complain about how they look during

ballet lessons. tell me about that. how did this start for you? >> well, i definitely heard it from my friends. my friends weren't very happy with how they looked i guess. and i blog for an organization called spark summit and we were trying to figure out why that was. i think it's from the media and the photo shop that's used in the media because girls try to compare themselves to images that are impossible to be like. >> you know, i work in the media as you know and i'm really interested in this issue and also the fact that you were able to get a major publication to change their policy. what was it like? i mean, was that a tough battle? how did it go back and forth? >> well, at the very end of april i went to new york and we held a mock photo shoot and they invited us to go up there and meet with ann shocket. that was when we first -- like when they first started

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this summer we introduced you to a remarkable family story. take a look at this image. you have natalie and her husband james. then james' sister tiffany and her husband shawn. what's remarkable in all this is tiffany is carrying a baby for natalie and james. james is her brother. when we met they had just found out tiffany was pregnant with twins. she's 20 weeks along now and they just got some pretty exciting news. >> today we are here to find out what is in this belly. we'll find out if we're having a boy or girl, two girls, two boys. >> wow. >> i love it.

>> we found out. what do you think? >> two boys. >> two boys. >> i need your help with the ball games. >> everything looking good still? >> yeah. real healthy. >> james is a little speech les there in that video. joining us now is natalie, james, tiffany, and sean. two boys. as a father of three girls i got to say, wow. that is quite something. you know, guys, we had a chance to talk a few times in the past. natalie, let me start with you. you've obviously had some time to digest the fact that you're going to have three boys in the house. what was it like for you when you found that out and also again that tiffany is carrying those boys for you? >> this was kind of what i thought we were going to have. i was so excited.

basically we have our own sports team at home. i think hunter is going to be a great big brother. you know, they're all going to be so close. we're so excited for that. >> i can only imagine. i think for all of you there has to be a feeling of this is really settling in. james, you're preparing for baseball games. when you hear this, has a weight been lifted off your shoulders and you have the news of this growing, healthy family despite the fact that natalie was not able to carry? >> yeah. in that aspect, yeah. it has been a huge weight on her shoulders. but just so excited to know that our family is going to get bigger and to -- they're so healthy and it's just so exciting. >> yeah. and, tiffany, i think the last time we spoke, you were having pretty significant morning sickness. how is that going for you? how has the pregnancy been over

all? >> well, we've been really lucky with the pregnancy over all because the boys are growing just honestly perfectly, how they should be. they're really strong and healthy and they're within a couple days of each other growth wise. i'm still sick, but i just keep telling myself it's not permanent. you know, the worst case scenario i go to nine months and the best case scenario maybe i'm done tomorrow or so. you just never know i guess. >> sean, you've been through this before as well. i mean, you know, with tiffany being pregnant. how is this different for you emotionally? do you think about it differently? >> you know, i really don't. that's been asked a lot from friends and family. all i really care about right now is her well being. and my two boys, raising them correctly. but i don't think anything emotionally too much about the fact that, you know, these

babies are going to be going to james and natalie because they're still going to be in our lives down the road. >> and you guys obviously are very close and all the more close for what you're going through right now. >> yeah. >> we'll keep checking in. this is a remarkable story with so much feedback from our viewers about all of you. thanks for sharing. >> thank you. up next a loss of sight but never a loss of vision. we'll take you to a summer camp for blind children who want to play competitive sports. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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good morning, camp ability! >> every day at camp abilities starts the same way. with care to share. >> got seven more shots, baskets on the basketball court last night including three in a row. >> i went three miles on the candle bike. >> i did my first back flip on the rings at gymnastics. >> reporter: all these children are visually impaired and they've come to camp abilities for a one-week developmental sports camp. their inspiration this year is marla runyan. she is diagnosed with a juvenile onset macular degeneration and was diagnosed when she was just 9 years old. >> we all know, for everybody whether sighted or not, physical exercise activities, sports, think about what a role that plays in your life -- running

became my choice of sport after i kind of abandoned soccer and had such trouble seeing the ball obviously. so i went out for my high school track team. >> boy, could runyan run. after running track and field in high school and college she turned pro eventually becoming the first legally blind athlete to compete in the olympic games. runyan says she was able to reach her full potential by competing against the best athletes in the world. now she's giving these campers their first taste of competitive sports. >> camp abilities to me is all about empowering kids and teaching them what they can do and giving them opportunities that they are not otherwise available to them at public school or after school programs. >> reporter: and there's a lot to choose from -- sports like beat baseball, goal ball. they learn to ride bikes, practice judo, and of course run track. >> when my vision changed, but my desire to be in sports never

changed. so i just stuck with it. >> just like the camp's mantra says. a loss of sight doesn't have to mean a loss of vision. >> our motto for camp ability is "believe you can." >> chasing life today. more olympic inspiration. i think you're going to like this. older athletes. here is a picture that caught my eye. bulgarian gymnast northern yochev, 39 years old. this is his sixth olympics. this is a young man's game and he is twice the age of most of his rivals but still finished eighth on the rings out of 68 competitors. and at 39, he is just a kid to some of the other olympians like nana van olczyk from denmark. she is 50. and a trap shooter is 57. then we have the oldest athlete in the games. an equestrian rider from japan is 71 years old.

guess what? back home they call him the hope for old men. i love that. we can't all be world class athletes but if you do exercise you can maintain strength, endurance, and skill well into middle age and far beyond as you just saw. that wraps things up for sjmd. stay connected with me and let's keep the conversation going on twitter at sanjay gupta cnn. time now to get you a check of your top stories in the cnn newsroom. here in the cnn newsroom i'm debra feyerick in today for don lemon. let's get you up to speed on the stories making headlines this hour. there he is. the republican candidate for vice president of the united states. mitt romney announced today wisconsin congressman paul ryan running along side him for the

white house. the two are making their next official stop as ticket mates right now in virginia. we're live from manassas in just a minute. a few hours ago president obama landed in chicago to host a series of high dollar fundraisers. ticket price $40,000 to attend the president's fundraiser tomorrow at his hyde park home. the president's campaign took a quick jab at paul ryan today saying ryan supports tax cuts for the wealthy that will hurt the middle class. meanwhile, vice president joe biden called ryan today to congratulate him and welcome him to the race. for the second time in less than 24 hours u.s. troops in southern afghanistan are the target of a deadly attack. a man wearing civilian clothing opened fire on a base in the volatile helmand province friday killing three marines. just hours earlier in the same region three american soldiers were killed by a man in an afghan military uniform. at least 80 people were killed today in syria according to opposition groups